Suicide car bomber kills 8 in Iraq
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August 9, 2010, Monday
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A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad yesterday and killed eight people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to collect a monthly state stipend for some of Iraq's poorest.
The bombing in Ramadi, 115 kilometers west of the Iraqi capital, also wounded 23 people in the line.
It followed an attack in the southern city of Basra, where explosions tore through a market and killed 43 people. The blasts on Saturday evening wounded about 185 people, police said yesterday.
Police said the blast in Ramadi took place between a petrol station and an abandoned cinema in the city center. Of the eight killed, two were policemen.
In Basra, Iraq's second largest city, police officials aid the blasts were caused by a car bomb followed by another bomb placed next to a power generator. The second blast ignited a fuel tank, according to the officials.
In other violence yesterday, a car bomb exploded near a school and a cluster of stores in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah west of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring four others.
Violence has dramatically dropped in Iraq since 2008, but insurgent attacks remain a daily occurrence.
The bombing in Ramadi, 115 kilometers west of the Iraqi capital, also wounded 23 people in the line.
It followed an attack in the southern city of Basra, where explosions tore through a market and killed 43 people. The blasts on Saturday evening wounded about 185 people, police said yesterday.
Police said the blast in Ramadi took place between a petrol station and an abandoned cinema in the city center. Of the eight killed, two were policemen.
In Basra, Iraq's second largest city, police officials aid the blasts were caused by a car bomb followed by another bomb placed next to a power generator. The second blast ignited a fuel tank, according to the officials.
In other violence yesterday, a car bomb exploded near a school and a cluster of stores in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah west of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring four others.
Violence has dramatically dropped in Iraq since 2008, but insurgent attacks remain a daily occurrence.
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