Five Iraqis killed, 30 injured in Baghdad double bombings
10/11/2008 17:39
Five people were killed and 30 others injured in a car bomb explosion
followed by a suicide vest attack in northern Baghdad today, an Interior
Ministry source said.
The twin bombings occurred at about 08:00 am (0500 GMT)
when a booby-trapped car went off first and was followed by a suicide bomber who
detonated his explosive-vest shortly after people gathered to examine the first
blast in a marketplace in the Sunni- dominated neighborhood of Adhamiyah, the
source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
It is apparently that the
attackers set off the car bomb explosion and then the suicide bomber to kill
scores of people, the source said.
A total of five people killed and 30
others wounded by the two blasts, he said.
The powerful blasts also caused
damages to several shops, stalls and civilian cars, he said.
Iraqi security
forces immediately sealed off the main roads leading to the scene while
ambulances and civilians cars were evacuating the victims to nearby hospitals,
he added.
Violence still haunts Iraq though the US military said earlier that
the level of violence was at a four-year low. Militant groups still seem to be
capable of stepping up large scale attacks.
Xinhua
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