Thursday, April 26, 2012

2 killed, 11 wounded in blast in Iraqi capital

BAGHDAD, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb and a roadside bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad killed two people and wounded 11 others on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

A booby-trapped car was detonated in al-Hurriyah district in northwestern Baghdad in the afternoon, killing two people and wounding nine others, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The powerful blast destroyed two nearby houses and caused damages to several surrounding buildings and civilian cars, the source said.

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad's Shi'ite bastion of Sadr City in eastern the capital, damaging a military vehicle and wounding two soldiers aboard, the source added.

Sporadic attacks still common in Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease in violence since its peak in 2006 and 2007 when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.
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