14 killed in spate of Iraq bomb attacks
Fourteen people were killed in a spate of bomb attacks in Baghdad and the western city of Ramadi yesterday, one of the worst days of violence in Iraq since US troops left its cities three weeks ago.
Nearly 100 people were wounded in the attacks, which nearly claimed Iraq's Water Resources Minister, just a day after seven police officers and a soldier were killed.
A one-year-old baby and a girl of eight were among four people who died when a bomb exploded at a market in the capital's Shia slum district of Sadr City, police and the defence ministry said. Thirty-four others were wounded.
Police defused another bomb in the same market.
Another four people, all workers, were killed and 31 wounded in an earlier twin bomb attack in Sadr City, a sprawling neighbourhood in northeastern Baghdad.
Two people lost their lives and six were wounded in a car bombing in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Dora, while a company manager was killed by a sticky bomb in Tajji, on the northern outskirts of the capital.
Also in the capital, Water Resources Minister Abdel Latif Jamal Rashid narrowly escaped a bombing as his convoy drove through the central district of Karrada, security sources said. His ministry denied Rashid was the target.
Six passers-by were wounded when the bombs exploded near a bridge.
Twelve members of the same family were hurt when the minibus they were travelling in was struck by a roadside bomb in the northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Baab al-Muadham.
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