BAGHDAD: A parked car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol Thursday in Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said.
American troops killed 17 militants amid escalating fighting in Sadr City, and another U.S. soldier was killed as the military death toll increased to a seven-month high of 50.
The explosion occurred in a crowded commercial area in eastern Baghdad, police officials said, adding the nine killed included three women and a child. The U.S. military said no American soldiers were killed, although three were wounded in the attack.
Health officials also said clashes in Sadr City killed eight people, including two women and a child, and wounded 18 others, including women and children.
Convoys of minibuses carried several coffins on rooftops to the cemetery for burial on Thursday as their grieving relatives hugged each other in pain.
Car bomb kills 9 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: A parked car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol Thursday in Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said.
American troops killed 17 militants amid escalating fighting in Sadr City, and another U.S. soldier was killed as the military death toll increased to a seven-month high of 50.
The explosion occurred in a crowded commercial area in eastern Baghdad, police officials said, adding the nine killed included three women and a child. The U.S. military said no American soldiers were killed, although three were wounded in the attack.
Health officials also said clashes in Sadr City killed eight people, including two women and a child, and wounded 18 others, including women and children.
Convoys of minibuses carried several coffins on rooftops to the cemetery for burial on Thursday as their grieving relatives hugged each other in pain.
