BAGHDAD, Sept 17: A car bomb killed 30 people and wounded 38 in a town east of Baghdad on Saturday at the end of one of the bloodiest weeks in and around the Iraqi capital since the invasion.
A police spokesman said the explosion in Nahrwan, 45kms from Baghdad, also wounded 38 people. “It was not a suicide bomb,” he said. “A car parked in the middle of the square and later it blew up.”
More than 200 people have been killed in bombings and shootings in and near Baghdad this week, including at least 114 in a single suicide bomb on Wednesday that targeted a crowd of day labourers waiting to be hired.
Earlier in the day, police in Baghdad found nine bodies shot in the head and chest in three separate incidents. One civilian was killed and 17 people, including three Iraqi soldiers, were wounded when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in Baquba.
Arrested:Coalition forces have arrested two leaders of the Al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist group, the US military said on Saturday. The two men were identified as Taha Ibrahim Yasin Becher, alias Abu Fatima, and Hamed Saeed Ismael Mustafa, alias Abu Shahed.—Agencies
