Easter church blast wounds four in Iraq

A roadside bomb explosion wounded four people, including two policemen, near a small church in the Iraqi capital on Easter Sunday, medical and security officials said.
The bomb went off near the entrance of the Sacred Heart church, which is surrounded by concrete blast walls, near Tahriart Square in central Baghdad.
Two passing civilians and two policemen were wounded, an interior ministry official and doctor at Ibn Nafis hospital said.
The church was empty at the time as Easter services were held earlier in the day, the building's security guards said.
Security officers at the site barred reporters from entering the church, but confirmed the casualty toll.
A pick-up truck belonging to federal police and a civilian saloon car were badly damaged by the blast, an AFP reporter said.
The number of Iraqi Christians has dwindled from an estimated between 800,000 and 1.2 million prior to the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein to about 400,000 today.
In other violence in Iraq, army General Abdulghani Mohammed was wounded by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to a military vehicle in the Al-Amriyah neighbourhood in the west of the capital, the interior ministry official said.
A roadside bomb also exploded near the Iranian embassy in the centre of the capital, but no casualties were reported.