Three dead in car bomb blast
29/01/2005 - 09:19:21A car bomb exploded today near the police headquarters in the mostly Kurdish city of Khanaqin on the Iranian border, a senior police official said.
A Kurdish official said three Iraqi soldiers and two civilians, one of them a child, were killed.
The police commander of Diyala province, Brig. Gen. Adel Mulan, confirmed the blast but had no initial casualty reports.
However, an official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Walah Bakhtiar, gave the casualty figures. He said nine people were injured.
The blast happened between the US base and the court house in the city, about 70 miles north-east of Baghdad, he said.
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