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Roadside bombs hit eastern Baghdad
Roadside bombs wounded eight people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital.
- AP
- Published: 11:56 September 7, 2008
Baghdad: Roadside bombs wounded eight people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital.
One blast occurred at 9:10 am on Sunday along Palestine Street near Beirut Square injuring five people including three policemen, officials said.
The other bomb exploded nearly an hour later on the Mohammed Al Qassim Highway, also in eastern Baghdad, wounding three policemen, police said.
The police official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press.
Small explosions, many of them targeting US and Iraqi security forces, still occur throughout Baghdad, despite an 80 per cent drop in violence nationwide since 2007.
Heightened security has severely cut back on the large car bombs that caused mass casualties during the worst of the sectarian fighting.
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