2 policemen wounded in Baghdad blast

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Two policemen were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in northern Baghdad on Friday evening, a security source said. “The IED, planted by unidentified persons on the highway in al-Waziriya neighborhood, northern Baghdad, went off just as a police patrol was driving by, leaving two patrolmen wounded and causing severe damage to the vehicle they were boarding,” the source told Iraqi News on customary condition of anonymity. “Security forces sealed off the blast scene and rushed the two wounded policemen to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source added. AmR (P) 1