At least 28 people were killed, including women and schoolgirls, and dozens wounded in a triple bombing in a Baghdad market on Monday, the deadliest attack to rock the Iraqi capital in months, security officials said.
The attackers detonated a car bomb in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah, then minutes later a suicide bomber ran into the resulting melee and blew up, according to defence and interior ministry officials.
A third explosion caused by a roadside bomb around 30 metres (yards) from the first two blasts tore through the market moments later, according to an Iraqi police officer who was on the street when the attack took place.
ZAGREB (AFP) — Croatia’s top security body was to meet on Friday after a senior journalist was murdered in a car bomb attack as Prime Minister Ivo Sanader vowed he would not allow the country to turn into “another Beirut”.
Ivo Pukanic, founder and owner of the Nacional independent weekly, was killed outside his paper’s offices in downtown Zagreb on Thursday night in the third mafia-style killing in the capital since the beginning of the month.
The blast also claimed the life of his marketing director Niko Franjic, while two other people were also injured in the explosion.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A car bomb exploded Friday in an outdoor market in southern Baghdad, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 22, an Interior Ministry official said.
Women and children were among the casualties from the explosion in the Shiite enclave in the Dora neighborhood, the official said.
In a separate incident Friday, an improvised explosive device killed four Iraqis and wounded 18 during an attack against an Iraqi Police mounted patrol in Mosul, north of Baghdad, according to a written statement from the Multi-National Division-North. Two Iraqi policemen were wounded.
The car packed with 200 kilos (440 pounds) of explosives blew up near a security checkpoint on a road to the Damascus international airport at an intersection leading to the Sayeda Zeinab neighbourhood, it said.
All the victims were civilian passers-by, the channel added.
The attack came at 8:45 am (0545 GMT) in the morning rush-hour in a teeming neighbourhood, the state-run SANA news agency said, quoting a Syrian official.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Czech Republic’s ambassador to Pakistan has been missing since a deadly blast Saturday night at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, the Czech News Agency reported.
Ivo Zdarek, 47, moved from Vietnam to Pakistan a month ago and was staying at the hotel, the national news agency said. It attributed its information to officials at the Czech foreign ministry.
He is married with two sons, according to the Web site of the Czech Embassy in Hanoi, where he was most recently posted.
The Czech Embassy would not confirm the report to CNN on Sunday.
BAGHDAD: Eight people were killed and 25 wounded Wednesday in double bombings in a busy section of central Baghdad filled with currency exchange shops and medical clinics, according to an official with the Interior Ministry.
The first bomb exploded at about 11:20 a.m. and appears, according to several witnesses, to have been placed in a pickup truck that belonged to Raad al-Maliki, a former member of the local municipal council and owner of one of the money-changing businesses that dot the area. Maliki, who was inside his shop at the time, survived the bombing.
About five minutes after the first blast, a second bomb planted next to a kiosk that sells cigarettes and soft drinks about 100 meters away exploded. Iraqi and U.S. soldiers immediately cordoned off the area and cut off traffic.
Smashed storefronts, burned vehicle remains and scattered debris were reminiscent of scenes Baghdad residents have been eager to forget.
Heavily armed militants opened fire on the United States Embassy in Sana, Yemen, on Wednesday and detonated a car bomb at its gates, in an attack that left at least 16 people dead including six of the attackers, Yemeni officials said.
No Americans were killed or wounded in the blast or when guards began to return fire, said a Yemeni official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Yemeni security officials and witnesses said the death toll was at least 16, including four bystanders, one of them an Indian woman. The other dead were six attackers and six security guards, the Yemeni officials said, speaking in return for anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
Yemen’s official Saba news agency also reported that 16 people were killed.
SAN’A, Yemen - A U.S. spokesman says the American Embassy in Yemen was hit by a car bomb and that there were unspecified casualties.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Ryan Gliha tells The Associated Press by telephone that there was a second explosion Wednesday that followed the initial one. He did not have figures for casualties or know their nationalities.
The embassy in Yemen has been the focus of violence in the past. The country is the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden,
At least 22 people have been killed and 32 wounded by a female suicide bomber who blew herself at a police gathering in Iraq’s Diyala province, police say.
The guests were attending an Iftar banquet, when Muslims break their fast during the month of Ramadan, in Balad Ruz, 70km (45 miles) north of Baghdad.
Officials told the BBC the party was being held by a policeman to celebrate his recent release from US detention.
Earlier, two car bombs exploded in central Baghdad, killing 12 people.
The blasts were in the busy Karrada district, near a courthouse and passport office.
BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a crowded commercial district in a mainly Shiite town north of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 43, Iraqi officials said.
The explosion in Dujail was apparently targeting a police station but instead it badly damaged a nearby medical clinic, according to police. Concrete barriers largely protected the police station, the officials said.
Two police officers and a hospital official gave the casualty toll on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information.
