An Iraqi police officer looks at a colleague lying on the ground after he was wounded during a bomb attack in central Baghdad January 12, 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)From Yahoo News/AP:
BAGHDAD – A series of bombs targeting Iraqi security forces ripped through busy areas in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least nine people, police said.
The violence began when two vehicles parked about 50 yards (meters) apart exploded in quick succession just after 7 a.m. as a police patrol passed by a bakery in a mainly Shiite area.
The road, which runs through a commercial district, is frequently used by police and army convoys in the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood, residents said.
Police and hospital officials said four people, including a policeman who died at the hospital, were killed and nine others wounded.
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