DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Ten policemen, including an officer, have been injured in a booby-trapped car blast in Baaquba, the center of northeast Iraq’s Diala Province, a police source said on Saturday.

“A booby-trapped car blew off this (Saturday) afternoon on the main highway passing through Baaquba, targeted against a motorcade of Diala Police, including a car of Police Colonel, Mudhaffar al-Makdamy, who was wounded along with 9 other policemen, as well as causing severe damage to the motorcade’s vehicles,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Baaquba, the center of Diala Province, is 57 km to the northeast of Baghdad.

SKH (PT)