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1st LD: 2 killed, 8 wounded in car bomb blast in Iraq's Baghdad

Xinhua,January 13, 2018 Adjust font size:

BAGHDAD, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed and eight others wounded Saturday in a car bomb explosion in northern Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source said.

The blast took place in the evening when a booby-trapped car went off in the busy Adan Square at the entrance of the holy Shiite neighborhood of Kadhmiyah, destroying several nearby civilian cars, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Enditem