Nine killed in Baghdad bomb blast
09/03/2006 - 10:53:58Heavy explosions rattled the Iraqi capital Baghdad today, and one of the blasts, a roadside bomb, killed at least nine passers-by and injured six.
The deadly blast targeted an Iraqi army patrol in Amariyah, a mostly Sunni neighbourhood in west Baghdad, according to Interior Ministry Major Falah al-Mohammedawi.
At least four other large blasts were heard, but police only had reports on one, a roadside bomb that was aimed at a police patrol in Jihad, another mostly Sunni western neighbourhood. Three bystanders were hurt.
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