Car Bombings in Baghdad Leave at Least 6 Dead

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Source: Associated Press

Car bombings in Baghdad leave at least 6 dead
By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jun 7, 4:18 PM ET

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people, police said. The suicide attacker rammed into a police patrol mid-afternoon in Nisoor Square on the capital's west side, killing a civilian and a policeman, police said. Another five people were wounded.

The other explosion took place nearly simultaneously across town at a crowded bus stop where passengers were lining up to catch rides to eastern Shiite neighborhoods, though police said the target was the passing convoy of a top Iraqi police general.

Four people were killed and 18 wounded, Brig. Gen. Nazar Majeed among them, said an officer on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media. Three of the dead were policemen, he said.

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An Iraqi man stands near to a badly damaged civilian car, after a car bomb exploded nearby, next to a crowded bus stop where passengers were lining up, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday , June 7, 2008. Three policemen and one civilian were killed, and 18 wounded, in the blast, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed )