Spate of bombings target Baghdad

22/06/2009| IslamWeb

Three blasts have shaken the Iraqi capital leaving at least six people dead, including a child.

Nearly 30 other people were injured in Monday's series of attacks, security and hospital officials said.

The blasts appeared to mark a rise in violence in the run up to the planned pullout of US troops from Iraqi towns and cities by the end of June.

In the first attack, a roadside bomb hit a minibus in the Shia neighborhood of Sadr City, killing three university students who were on their way to write their final exams.

Twelve other students and the minibus driver hurt in the morning rush-hour attack.

A woman and a four-year-old child were also killed and four others injured when a bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in Shaab, in northeast Baghdad, hospital officials said.

In the commercial neighborhood of Karrada in the centre of the city, a car bombing killed one person and injured 10.

Violence has dropped in Iraq in recent months, with May seeing the lowest Iraqi death toll since the 2003 invasion.

But attacks remain common, particularly in Baghdad and the main northern city of Mosul.

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