UPDATE / Basra’s car bomb blast toll reaches 5 dead, 29 injured

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The result of the suicide blast from a booby-trapped car explosion, carried out by a suicide bomber in southern Iraq’s Port-City of Basra on Monday, has reached 5 dead and 29 injured, a security source said. “The result of the suicide bomber’s booby-trapped car explosion, which took place close to the former headquarters of Basra Province and targeted a Police Emergency battalion belonging to the Interior Ministry’s Inspector-General, has reached 5 persons killed, among them 3 policemen, a civilian and the suicide-bomber. In addition, 29 others were injured, most of them policemen,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Basra, the center of southern Iraq’s Basra Province, is 590 km to the south of Baghdad. SKH (TP)/SR 1049