BAQUBA :Six people were killed north of Baghdad on Monday, two of them in a bombing in a women’s clothing store in the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, medical and security sources said.
The blast in the city’s Al-Mafraq market had initially been reported as the work of a female suicide bomber but the US military said the woman died when she stepped on a bomb that had been planted in the store.
“Our reports indicate the woman killed was an innocent victim of a senseless attack,” the military said in a statement.
The US military could confirm only the one death but a medic at Baquba hospital said two people were killed and 14 wounded in the bombing.
Three other attacks in Diyala killed another four people, police said.
A roadside bombing in the Al-Rahima neighbourhood of north Baquba killed a woman, police said. Soon after the blast, residents fired in the air, leaving a second woman killed by a stray bullet.
And two members of anti-Qaeda fronts were killed by snipers, police added. One was murdered in Khan Beni Saad and the other in the Al-Hashmiyat neighbourhood of Baquba.
Six Killed North Of Baghdad
BAQUBA :Six people were killed north of Baghdad on Monday, two of them in a bombing in a women’s clothing store in the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, medical and security sources said.
The blast in the city’s Al-Mafraq market had initially been reported as the work of a female suicide bomber but the US military said the woman died when she stepped on a bomb that had been planted in the store.
“Our reports indicate the woman killed was an innocent victim of a senseless attack,” the military said in a statement.
The US military could confirm only the one death but a medic at Baquba hospital said two people were killed and 14 wounded in the bombing.
Three other attacks in Diyala killed another four people, police said.
A roadside bombing in the Al-Rahima neighbourhood of north Baquba killed a woman, police said. Soon after the blast, residents fired in the air, leaving a second woman killed by a stray bullet.
And two members of anti-Qaeda fronts were killed by snipers, police added. One was murdered in Khan Beni Saad and the other in the Al-Hashmiyat neighbourhood of Baquba.
