Baghdad bomb blast kills 4, injures 27
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violenceBAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad on Saturday, killing four people and wounding 27, police said.
The victims were all civilians as the explosion missed the police patrol in the al-Sadriya market, police Lt. Ali Mitaab and Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said. The market is in a Shiite-Sunni Arab neighborhood in central Baghdad.
The violence came after Iraqi authorities imposed a four-hour driving ban Friday in Baghdad to prevent reprisals after the killing of al-Qaida's top deputy in
Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A similar ban remains in effect in the volatile Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.
Gunmen in two cars also shot to death a Shiite metal worker and wounded two others in their shop in western Baghdad, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said. A mortar landed on a house elsewhere in the capital, seriously wounding a 50-year-old woman and a 2-year-old girl, Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq said.
An Iraqi carries his 9-year old niece Ibtisam Mahmoud, away from the hospital after she was wounded by a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in an outdoor market that killed four people and wounded some 26 others, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 10, 2006. Ibtisam was not able to receive treatment at the hospital as it was full, so she had to be carried to another hospital for treatment, her medical condition is unknown but not thought to be critical. The explosion at the al-Sadriya market missed the police patrol, killing and wounding civilians in this Shiite-Sunni Arab neighborhood in central Baghdad. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)