| Car bombs kill 19 in Baghdad |
BAGHDAD Two car bombs ripped into a busy intersection and a public square in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 19 people and wounded 50 others.
Clouds of dark smoke rose above the centre of the capital where the bombs exploded just minutes apart, leaving dead and wounded lying in the street and slumped inside a damaged minibus, witnesses and police said.
Three young men in blood-stained T-shirts searched for a friend near the wreckage of one of the blasts in Baghdad and women in traditional abaya gowns screamed out the name of a missing relative, a witness said.
“We were in a patrol when we heard the first explosion. The second explosion hit another square, and we went to help... There was a minibus with six dead passengers inside it,” said Ahmed Hassan, a police officer.
An interior ministry official said the first attack was by a suicide car bomber who blew up a vehicle at the rear of the police major crimes headquarters.
One of the blasts destroyed the entire front of a building and multiple cars, shattered shop windows and scattered debris across the street.
Separately, two people were killed and three wounded by a car bomb north of Fallujah.
The attacks came a day after gunmen shot dead a television presenter and wounded his mother, wife and four-month-old baby boy, police said.
Agencies
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