Roadside Bombs in Central Iraq Kill Five(updated to 15)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Roadside bombs targeting police patrols exploded in Baghdad and nearby Iskandariyah on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding a dozen others, police said.

The blast in Baghdad's mostly Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Azamiyah killed two policemen and two bystanders, police Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said.

At least seven people — two policemen and five civilians — were wounded, he said.

Another bomb in the capital wounded four civilians in the downtown district of Karradah, which is mostly Shiite but has a large Sunni community.

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Car bombings rock Baghdad





At least 10 Iraqi policemen killed in bomb blasts including suicide attack on HQ of anti-terrorist unit in Baghdad.


BAGHDAD - At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed and more than 42 people wounded in a series of car bombings Thursday, including a suicide attack on a Baghdad anti-terrorist unit, security officials said.

In the most deadly attack, the bomber blew his car up at the entrance to the headquarters of an anti-terrorism unit in central Baghdad, killing six police and wounding 22 others, mostly policemen, an interior ministry official said.

Earlier in the day, at least three other policemen were killed and five people were wounded in car bomb attack in the north of the city.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near the headquarters of the Iraqi police's major crimes unit in Baghdad on Thursday, killing 15 people and wounded 32 others, the Interior Ministry said.

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An oil tanker is seen engulfed with fire in western Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 22, 2006. The cause of the fire was not known but according to driver of the oil tanker, U.S. army fired at the tanker and set it ablaze. There was no immediate comment by U.S. army on the incident. (AP Photo/ Khlaid Mohammed )

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb explosion at a major crimes unit in downtown Baghdad killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 Thursday, police said.

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A suicide bomber drove up to the entrance of the Karradah building housing the unit — which is run by the Interior Ministry — before detonating the vehicle, police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammadawi said.

It was not immediately clear how many of those killed were bystanders and how many were employees of the unit, which investigates large-scale crimes, al-Mohammadawi said.

Suspected insurgents also set off roadside bombs targeting police patrols across the capital, killing at least four people and wounding a dozen others, police said.

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