Bomb kills 6 people in Baghdad-police, hospital
Posted on: Thursday, 9 March 2006, 03:33 CST
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed six people and wounded eight on Thursday in Baghdad's western Amriya district, a Sunni insurgent stronghold, police and hospital officials said.
Police 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 with roadside bombs on a daily basis.
Doctor Adel Abdul-Karim at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital said the hospital had received six bodies and eight wounded, among them a young child. A Reuters reporter saw the boy lying on a stretcher, his eyes bandaged. Some of the other casualties appeared to be badly wounded.
On Wednesday, two policemen were killed when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in Baghdad, and two Interior Ministry employees died when a bomb blasted a ministry convoy in an apparent attempt to kill Interior Minister Bayan Jabor.
The bodies of 18 men -- bound, blindfolded and garroted -- were found near Amriya on Tuesday. Officials have yet to confirm the religious identities of the 18 amid surging sectarian violence between minority Sunnis and majority Shi'ites.
Source: REUTERS
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