Suicide attack along Baghdad's killer road
A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives next to a US convoy on Baghdad’s dangerous airport road today, and several casualties were seen lying next to a damaged vehicle.
The British embassy banned its staff from travelling on the road yesterday because of surge of attacks on the vital thoroughfare.
Police Captain Talib al-Alawani said a bomber drove his car into the convoy.
Several casualties were seen lying next to a damaged vehicle, according to an eyewitness who arrived on the scene before troops sealed off the road.
The highway, which multinational troops use daily to commute between the huge military base at the airport and Baghdad’s centre, is considered one of the most dangerous roads in Iraq.
In the northern town of Beiji, a car bomb exploded near a US patrol today, killing four Iraqi civilians and injuring 19 people, two of them American soldiers, the military said.
The attacks came as the military announced that a US soldier died from injuries suffered after a roadside bomb exploded last night next to his patrol north of Baghdad, bringing to 134 the number of American troops killed in Iraq this month.
This makes November the deadliest month for the US military since April when 135 troops died.
Fierce fighting in Fallujah and insurgents’ counterattacks elsewhere in Iraq have fuelled the high death toll this month.
