15 Killed in Baghdad Suicide Bombings

[chlamor]

15 killed in Baghdad suicide bombings

Thursday April 14, 2005

Two suicide car bombings killed at least 15 people and wounded around 20 during rush hour in Baghdad today, ministry and hospital officials said. The explosions happened near an Iraqi interior ministry building in the centre of the city. Around 200 metres apart, the bombs detonated in quick succession on a busy street, destroying cars and leaving debris strewn over a wide area.

A Reuters cameraman said children were among the dead, and hospital staff said at least four policemen had been wounded in the attack.

Elsewhere in Iraq, insurgents maintained attacks against Iraq's security services. Seven gunmen travelling in two vehicles fired at a police station just south of Kirkuk shortly after dawn, killing five police officers and one civilian, police Brigadier Sarhat Qadir said.

A gun attack on a police patrol near Baquba, in central Iraq, killed one officer and wounded three, while in Baghdad, an intelligence official, Firas Hussein, was shot and killed as he made his way to work.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1459487,00.html

[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. We surely turned the corner this time!

[Igel]

2. The freedom fighters have release yet more police,

women, children, students, and other Iraqis from the horrors of the occupation, it seems.

/sarcasm

[Rockerdem]

3. A "rush hour"?

With all the mayhem, who has the cojones to drive around like a target?