Baghdad market blast kills 5, wounds 22

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Five persons were killed and 22 others were wounded when a sticky explosive charge detonated inside a civilian vehicle in a northern Baghdad market, Baghdad Operation Command (BOC) said on Saturday. “A sticky improvised explosive device (IED) placed inside a civilian vehicle detonated in a used clothes market in Baghdad’s northern area of al-Kadhemiya, killing five civilians and wounding 22 others, according to an initial count,” a spokesperson for the command, Maj. Gen. Qassem Ata, told IraqiNews.com. SS (P) 1