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Bomb kills four in central Baghdad
19 Feb 2007 06:24:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A bomb inside a minibus in central Baghdad killed four people on Monday, witnesses said.

A Reuters photographer saw four charred bodies lying on the street after the explosion blew out the top of the bus in the Karrada district, a religiously mixed area.

Police said the blast was caused by a bomb planted inside the bus. They said two people were killed and four wounded in the attack.

On Sunday, two car bombs tore through a crowded market area of a mainly Shi'ite district in eastern Baghdad, killing 60 people in the worst attack since U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a security crackdown in the city last week.

The Baghdad crackdown, dubbed Operation Imposing Law, is seen as a last-ditch attempt to avert all-out civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.


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