Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Media: AFP
Byline: n/a
Date: 15 October 2006
BAGHDAD - Two bombs tore through the convoy of a high ranking interior
ministry officer in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven people but
leaving the official unscathed, a security source said.
Hala Mohammed Shakr, head of the ministry's financial affairs department,
was driving through eastern Baghdad's Mustansiriyah neighborhood when the
bombs exploded, killing two bodyguards and setting two cars on fire.
Five civilian bystanders were also killed and there was heavy damage to a
nearby gas station and shops in the area, the source said.
Al-Kindi hospital reported receiving eight wounded civilians.
Elsewhere in the city, a bomb exploded next to a passing convoy of security
contractors, setting one vehicle ablaze and killing two bystanders, police
said.
The blast on Ghadir street in southeast Baghdad also wounded five people.
Another bomb exploded in the restive Amil neighborhood, a mixed
Sunni-Shiite area in southwest Baghdad that has been the scene of a number
of attacks, killing one person and wounding two.
The perilous security situation in Baghdad has worsened since the start
three weeks ago of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, with
officials reporting a spike in attacks across the capital.
Byline: n/a
Date: 15 October 2006
BAGHDAD - Two bombs tore through the convoy of a high ranking interior
ministry officer in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven people but
leaving the official unscathed, a security source said.
Hala Mohammed Shakr, head of the ministry's financial affairs department,
was driving through eastern Baghdad's Mustansiriyah neighborhood when the
bombs exploded, killing two bodyguards and setting two cars on fire.
Five civilian bystanders were also killed and there was heavy damage to a
nearby gas station and shops in the area, the source said.
Al-Kindi hospital reported receiving eight wounded civilians.
Elsewhere in the city, a bomb exploded next to a passing convoy of security
contractors, setting one vehicle ablaze and killing two bystanders, police
said.
The blast on Ghadir street in southeast Baghdad also wounded five people.
Another bomb exploded in the restive Amil neighborhood, a mixed
Sunni-Shiite area in southwest Baghdad that has been the scene of a number
of attacks, killing one person and wounding two.
The perilous security situation in Baghdad has worsened since the start
three weeks ago of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, with
officials reporting a spike in attacks across the capital.