11 injured in Basra car bombing

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: Eleven people were wounded in the car bombing that occurred in Basra earlier Wednesday, said a local police source. “Five policemen are among the injuries,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He explained that the injuries were admitted to a nearby hospital. A car bomb went off earlier today near a police station in central Basra city, southern Iraq. “The blast occurred this morning near a police station in the Umm al-Broom neighborhood of central Basra,” a local security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The oil-rich city of Basra lies 590 km south of Baghdad. MH (P)/SR 2