Insurgent attacks kill one, wound 28
Two suicide car bombs exploded in Baghdad today, and one was followed up by a roadside bomb that hit Iraqi policemen racing to the scene, police said.
The two attacks killed one Iraqi and wounded 19.
The worst occurred at about 9.30am local time, when a suicide car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint at the Bakriyah area of west Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding six, said police Maj. Mousa Abdul-Karim.
As police raced toward the scene to rescue the wounded, a roadside bomb planted on the side of a highway exploded, wounding three policemen, said Abdul-Karim.
Elsewhere, a suicide car bomb hit a convoy of government cars, seriously wounding 10 Iraqis, police said.
The attack occurred as the convoy was heading to a government building to pick up Saad Naif Al-Hardan, Iraq’s minister for provincial affairs, at his office, and the suicide bomber probably thought the cars already were carrying Al-Hardan, said police Capt. Qassim Hussein.
In another attack in the capital today, a roadside bomb wounded one civilian driver in the Al-Amiriyah neighbourhood of western Baghdad.
Outside the capital, a suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol exploded near Baqouba, a city 35 miles north-east of Baghdad, wounding five soldiers and three civilians, police said.
