Eight killed in Baghdad attack

Published February 11, 2006

BAGHDAD, Feb 10: A car bomb exploded outside a mosque in Baghdad on Friday, killing eight people. Masked gunmen appeared at the scene later, killing one woman and wounding several other people near the blast-damaged building.

A photographer saw at least two bystanders gunned down by the masked men, one of whom held a pistol to the head of the woman. Police later said she was killed and two men were wounded.

Later in the day a religious figure also was abducted from his home in the capital by armed men wearing interior ministry police uniforms, his relatives said.—AP

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