Police say bomb kills 7 in southwest Baghdad, other bombs kill 2…
A bombing at a bus station in a Shiite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad on Thursday killed at least seven people and wounded 31 others, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks ahead of a U.S. military withdrawal from cities next week.
Another three bombs and a mortar killed two more people around the capital. The U.S. military said nine American soldiers were wounded in two roadside bomb attacks against a convoy in eastern Baghdad. The attacks were latest is a series of deadly bombings mostly targeting Shiites in the past week.
The bombing occurred when a parked car bomb exploded inside the Baiyaa district’s buses station, police officials said. They could not be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The bombings came as police sifted through the bloody debris of an explosion late Wednesday that killed 78 people, trying to determine how such a massive bomb was smuggled into the teeming heart of Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City.
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Government of Iran is behind all the current bombings in Iraq..trying to force US to back down. Isn’t it interesting that the bombings increases with the US pressure on Iran.