Suicide car bomber kills at least 13 in Baghdad

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Suicide car bomber kills at least 13 in Baghdad


A car destroyed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad.
Hussein al Taai / MCT

By Corinne Reilly and Jenan Hussein | McClatchy Newspapers


BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber who was aiming for a government convoy killed at least 13 people and wounded two dozen more Thursday morning in Baghdad, police and government officials said.

The 8 a.m. explosion targeted a Labor Ministry convoy as it passed through central Baghdad's Bab al Sharji district. The labor minister, Mahmoud al Radhi, wasn't in the convoy, but at least three of his guards were among the dead, an Interior Ministry official said.

Four more guards were wounded, the official said. The rest of the casualties were civilians. Witnesses said the attacker was driving a white sport-utility vehicle.

Burnt cars, broken glass and dead birds littered the street after the explosion.

Hussein Taha, 63, was selling tea from a roadside stand when the bomber struck. "There was a soldier drinking at my stand," he said. "Then the bomb went off and dust went everywhere and I couldn't see. When the dust cleared, I saw the soldier dead on the ground with blood on his head. . . . People all around me were killed, but somehow I am still standing here."

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