Bomb blasts leave 9 people dead, 10 wounded near Baghdad
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An Iraqi policeman walks past the wreckage of a car at the site of a car bomb attack.
At least nine people have lost their lives and nearly a dozen others sustained injuries when two bomb explosions ripped through residential neighborhoods near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Iraqi security and medical officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said eight people were killed and two others injured on Friday when an improvised explosive device went off close to a commercial district in the city of Bismayah, located about 10 km southeast of Baghdad, Arabic-language al-Baghdadia satellite television network reported.
Separately, a bomb detonated close to a commercial district in the town of Abu Ghraib, located some 25 km west of the capital, leaving a civilian dead and eight others injured.
On Thursday, five civilians were killed and more than a dozen others sustained injuries when an explosion ripped through a group of mourners at a burial in Haswa region.
“A bomb went off in a graveyard in Haswa as a family were preparing to bury a relative,” Iraq's Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan said in a statement.
He added, “The bomb exploded near the grave... and killed five mourners and wounded 14.”
Moreover, a bomb attack struck an outdoor market in the city of Sabaa al-Bour, located approximately 18 miles northwest of Baghdad, leaving one civilian dead and eight others injured.
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