Car bombs in Baghdad kill 10

[maddezmom]

Source: Rueters

Car bombs in Baghdad kill 10

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded when two car bombs exploded in quick sucession in a mostly Shi'ite neighbourhood in southwestern Baghdad on Sunday, police and hospital sources said.

The blasts took place in al-Shurta al-Rabeia near a popular market. Another police source said there had been one car bomb followed by mortar rounds and put the death toll at five dead and 20 wounded.

Hospital sources said 10 dead bodies had been received and that they were treating 50 people wounded.



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[maddezmom]

1. Double car bombing kills 18 in Baghdad

Double car bombing kills 18 in Baghdad 5 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (AFP) - A double car bombing tore through a crowded market area in southern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 18 men, women and children, medics and security officials said.

One explosives-packed car blew up outside a restaurant and the second in a nearby market in the Al-Shurta al-Arabaa district, in what appeared to be a coordinated attack on the first day of the Iraqi working week.

"Of those killed 10 are men, five women and three children," a medic at the Yarmuk Hospital in the Iraqi capital told AFP, adding that 35 wounded were receiving treatment, several of them also women and children.

Car and suicide bombings have battered Baghdad on a near daily basis in the two months since Iraqi and US troops launched a security crackdown in the capital, with tens of thousands of soldiers patrolling the streets.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070415/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestbaghdad_070415074314

[maddezmom]

2. another car bomb kills up to 6

In the Kadhimiya district in the northwest of the city, a police source said a suicide bomber wearing a belt packed with explosives killed six people and wounded 11 in a small bus. Another police source put the death toll at three.

The U.S. military said the helicopter crash near Taji did not appear to be the result of an insurgent attack.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15574556.htm


FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 15
15 Apr 2007 11:22:29 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Background
Iraq in turmoil
More April 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1100 GMT on Sunday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BASRA - Iraqi and coalition forces killed five insurgents and detained two suspected insurgents during an operation on Saturday in the southern city of Basra, targeting rogue Mehdi army elements loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

MOSUL - Four people, including two Iraqi soldiers, were killed and 16 wounded when two oil trucks driven by suicide bombers exploded outside a military base in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A bomb inside a small bus killed three people and wounded 11 others in the Kadhimiya district of northwestern Baghdad, police said. Another police source put the death toll at six dead and 11 wounded by a suicide bomber on the bus.

* BAIJI - Gunmen killed a police colonel and a policeman and wounded a police colonel and Major General in a drive-by shooting in the oil city refinery of Baiji, north of Baghdad, police said.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15575809.htm

[maddezmom]

3. Bombs explode throughout Baghdad, killing 28 and wounding 71

Bombs explode throughout Baghdad, killing 28 and wounding 71
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Bomb blasts around Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 28 people and wounded another 71, including a suicide bombing on a small bus, according to Baghdad police.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest on board a small bus in northwestern Baghdad Sunday afternoon, killing six people and wounding 11 others, Baghdad police said. The bus was traveling on a road between the mostly Shiite neighborhoods of Autaifiya and Kadhimiya.

~snip~

Later in the day, four people were killed and eight others wounded when an explosives-packed minibus detonated in a commercial road in central Baghdad's Karrada district, a Baghdad police official said. -- From CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq (Posted 7:54 a.m.)

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/15/sunday/index.html

[Eugene]

4. "there are going to be good days and bad days..."

Over 100 persons were killed on Saturday.

With 35 killed today according to the latest Factbox,
is this supposed to be one of those good days? /sarcasm

[Eugene]

5. Another car bombing in Baghdad; Karbala toll now 43 dead - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 15
15 Apr 2007 12:58:24 GMT
Source: Reuters

April 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1230 GMT
on Sunday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed five people and wounded 10
in the predominantly Shi'ite Karrada district in central Baghdad, police said.

* KERBALA - Health officials said another three people had died after a suicide car
bombing at a crowded bus station in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Saturday,
taking the death toll to 43. They said another 200 were wounded.

-snip-

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