AP: Car Bombs Kill 8, Injure 38 in Baghdad (also 2 coalition soldiers killed)

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Car Bombs Kill 8, Injure 38 in Baghdad

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov 11, 2006 (AP)— A pair of car bombs tore through
a downtown shopping district in the capital on Saturday, killing
eight people, while a Slovak and Polish soldier were reported killed
overnight by a roadside bomb south of the capital.

Police and a medical workers said at least 38 others were injured
in the explosion at Hafidh al-Qadhi square, a formerly bustling area
on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. It was one of at least three
deadly attacks Saturday in the beleaguered capital, where U.S. forces
searching for a kidnapped American soldier offered a $50,000 for
information leading to his recovery.

Slovakian defense ministry spokesman Vladimir Gemela said the two
soldiers died when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Kut,
100 miles southeast of Baghdad where coalition troops have fought
fighters with the Mahdi Army militia loyal to the radical anti-American
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The deaths marked the 18th among Polish troops and fourth among
those from Slovakia, which has about 100 troops in Iraq operating
jointly with the 900 Polish troops in the country.

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