Iraq: Car Bomb Kills 21 in Baghdad
By admin - Posted on June 28th, 2007
28 June 2007 -- Iraqi officials say a car bomb has killed at least 21 people at a crowded bus station in Baghdad.
They say 40 others were wounded in Thursday's explosion during morning rush hour in the capital's mostly-Shi'ite district of Bayaa. At least 40 vehicles were destroyed by the bomb.
Elsewhere in the capital, mortars hit the central Shorja commercial district, killing at least two people.
In another development, the British military said a roadside bomb killed three British soldiers in the southern city of Basra.
Also Thursday, Iraqi authorities found the bodies of 20 beheaded men on the banks of the Tigris River, south of Baghdad.
Source: VOA News
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