BAGHDAD, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A car bomb struck a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles usually used by foreign contractors in Baghdad on Wednesday, destroying one of the vehicles, wounding an occupant and five Iraqi civilians, police said.

    "A car parked on the side of a road in Baghdad's Karada district near a gas station detonated at about 9:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) as a convoy of sport utility vehicles (SUV) was passing by, destroying one of the vehicles," police officer Captain Ahmed Abdullah told Xinhua.

    "One of the SUV's occupants, whose nationality was not known, was wounded in the blast along with five Iraqi civilians," Abdullah said.

    The US troops cordoned off the area, preventing people and Iraqi police from approaching the scene, according to Abdullah, who said the US soldiers immediately evacuated the wounded people who looked apparently a foreigner from the car.

    Three civilian cars were damaged by the blast along with several shops and nearby houses, he added. Enditem