20 civilians injured in Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The al-Fayhaa hospital received 20 civilians wounded in random shootout from separate areas of Basra, said a medic on Friday. “The al-Fayhaa hospital on Thursday night (Jan. 9) received 20 civilians; most of them were wounded by bullets while others were wounded by a rocket’s shrapnels,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency, noting that some of the wounded were in a critical condition. A security source had said on Thursday that three civilians were wounded when a Katyusha rocket hit western Basra. Basra is 590 km south of Baghdad. SH (P) 1