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3rd blast in Baghdad leaves 2 sahwa fighters wounded

March 8, 2009 - 10:39:48

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Two sahwa (awakening) tribal fighters were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in western Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

“An IED planted by unidentified gunmen on a main road in the area of al-Ghazaliya, western Baghdad, went off when a vehicle boarded by two sahwa fighters was passing by, leaving the two of them injured and the vehicle damaged,” a security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Earlier, an Iraqi police source said two civilians were wounded from a sticky IED blast in al-Allawi, central Baghdad.

In eastern Baghdad, a suicide bomber with an explosive belt blew himself up amongst a gathering of police recruits near the Police Academy on Falastine street, leaving 23 people killed and 50 others wounded. Medics say the casualties are most likely to rise.

AmR (P)/SR

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