Roadside bomb kills seven-year-old boy in Baghdad
A roadside bomb exploded near a US military convoy in Baghdad today, missing the soldiers but killing a seven-year-old boy who was selling cans of black-market petrol on the street and wounding nine other civilians.
Today’s blast hit Iraqi pedestrians in Askan, a commercial district of western Baghdad at about 8.45am local time, and destroyed several parked cars, said police Capt. Qassim Hussein and Dr. Mohammed Jawad at Yarmouk Hospital. The wounded included a 10-year-old Iraqi girl, they said.
In three separate drive-by shootings, insurgents killed a policeman and wounded an Iraqi army officer and his driver in the Dora section of Baghdad, and killed a policewoman in Mosul, 225 miles north-west of the capital, police said.
