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4 killed in car bomb attack in eastern Baghdad
www.chinaview.cn 2006-04-16 16:06:01

Sepcial Report: Tension accelerates in Iraq

Four people were killed and six others wounded in a car bomb blast in eastern Baghdad on Sunday.

  A car was pulled away from the explosion site after the bomb blast on April 16, 2006. [Xinhua/AFP]

    BAGHDAD, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and six others wounded in a car bomb blast in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

    "An explosive-laden car parking near the Kamaliyah mosque detonated shortly before 11:00 a.m. (0700 GMT), killing four civilians and wounding six others," the source said on condition of anonymity.

    Separately, a roadside bomb struck a U.S. patrol in the busy Athoriyin Market in Baghdad's southern district of Dora, the source said.

    "We know there is casualties among American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, but we can't give numbers as the U.S. troops cordoned off the area and prevented people and Iraqi police from approaching the scene," he said. Enditem

Four people were killed and six others wounded in a car bomb blast in eastern Baghdad on Sunday.

  A car was pulled away from the explosion site after the bomb blast on April 16, 2006. [Xinhua/AFP]

Four people were killed and six others wounded in a car bomb blast in eastern Baghdad on Sunday.

  A car was pulled away from the explosion site after the bomb blast on April 16, 2006. [Xinhua/AFP]

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