BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi citizen has been killed and 9 others, including 3 policemen, have been injured, in an explosive charge and booby-trapped car blasts in Baghdad, whilst car blew off in another Baghdad district, causing no casualties, a Baghdad security source said on Monday.

“An explosive charge, stuck to a taxi, blew off close to northern Baghdad’s al-Bakriya district, killing its driver and wounding a civilian that accompanied him,” the security source said.

He said that a booby-trapped car, parked in a garage in northern Baghdad’s Kathimiya district, blew off, wounding 8 persons, including 3 policemen.

“Another booby-trapped car blew off close to an alcohol shop in eastern Baghdad’s Zayouna district, damaging a number of shops, but causing no human losses,” he added.

Baghdad had witnessed a number of explosions, caused by explosive charges and booby-trapped cars, killing 13 people and wounding 74 others, most of them civilians and a number of policemen on Sunday, according to Baghdad health officials.

SKH (IT)