2 civilians injured by bomb blast in Babel

BABEL / IraqiNews.com: A man and a woman were wounded Friday in a bomb blast in northern Babel, according to a police source. “An improvised explosive device, planted on the Mussayab-Karbala road, north of Hilla, went off targeting a U.S. convoy,” the source told Iraqi News, noting that the blast damaged a civilian car in front of the convoy and injured the driver and the woman beside him. “U.S. forces defused another bomb, planted near the area, without casualties,” he added. Hilla, the capital of Babel, lies 100 km south of Baghdad. SH (P) 1