Three civilians killed, 9 others injured, in booby-trapped car blast in east Baghdad

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: ;At least 3 civilians have been killed and 9 others injured in a booby-trapped car explosion on Thursday in east Baghdad‘s al-Shaab district, a security source reported.”A booby-trapped car, left by unknown gunmen on the main highway in Aden district of east Baghdad‘s al-Shaab area, blew off on Thursday, killing 3 civilians and wounding 9 others,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The Iraqi capital of Baghdad had witnessed dozens of explosions, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, one day after an announcement by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, of his decision to detain Iraq’s Vice-President and leading member of al-Iraqiya bloc, Tareq al-Hashemy, who flew to north Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, where its President, Masoud Barzani, refused to hand him over to the Baghdad authorities.SKH (PT)389