Iraq - Car bombs kills 56
February 18, At least 56 people were killed and 127 people were injured in the twin car bomb explotion in an outdoor market in Baghdad since US and Iraqi forces began a major security posh around the capital.
The car bomb exploded in the mostly Shiite area of New Baghdad marked the first major response by militants to he sweep launched last week and a sobering reminder of the huge challenges facing any efforts to rattle the well armed factions.
The injured people in the car bomb explotion were admitted in the two city hospitals. An official in the hospital in baghdad said that the emergency room had received 42 corpses and was treating 83 seriously wounded people including women and children. He said that the team had seen many dead and seriously wounded people following the vehicle explosive blasts.
A large plume of smoke could be seen appearing over the Baghdad district after the car bomb blast. A security official said that in a seperate attack in nearby Sadr city, a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint mounted by Iraqi police commandos.
Vehicle explosives attacks in east Baghdad are the hallmark of Sunni extremists targetting Shia civilians in the Iraqi capital’s vicious sectarian war. At least 79 people were killed in similar attacks on last Monday in Market areas of Baghdad.
