Car bomb kills two, wounds seven in Baghdad-police

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A car bomb killed two people and
wounded seven in Baghdad on Wednesday, a police source said,
hours after Iraqi troops stepped up security in the capital as
part of what the government said was a major crackdown.

A Reuters photographer who was at the scene at the time of
the blast said he saw four bodies, but it was not clear whether
they were dead or seriously wounded.

He said the bomb apparently targeted a police patrol in the
northern Qahira district.

In a separate attack, a roadside bomb near the Turkish
embassy in another part of northern Baghdad wounded no one,
police said.

Insurgents seeking to topple the U.S.-backed, Shi’ite-led
government often mount bombing attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere
in Iraq.