Bomb kills six people in Baghdad: police

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed six people and
wounded eight in Baghdad’s western Amriya district on Thursday,
police and hospital officials said.

Another police source said two had been killed, one of them
a child, and seven wounded. He said the target of the bomb had
been an Iraqi army patrol. No soldiers were among the
casualties.

Sunni insurgents fighting to topple the Shi’ite and
Kurdish-led government attack Iraqi army and police patrols on
a daily basis.

On Wednesday, two policemen were killed when a roadside
bomb went off near a police patrol in central Baghdad, and two
Interior Ministry employees died when a bomb blasted a ministry
convoy.

The bodies of 18 men — bound, blindfolded and garroted —
were found near Amriya, a Sunni insurgent stronghold, on
Tuesday. Officials have yet to confirm the religious identities
of the 18 amid surging sectarian violence between minority
Sunnis and majority Shi’ites.