MNF armored vehicle damaged as bomb goes off in Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The Multinational forces in southern Iraq said on Friday that a convoy came under a roadside bomb explosion in central Basra, damaging an armored vehicle. “An explosive charge went off targeting a convoy of the Multinational forces near al-Fayhaa hospital in central Basra, damaging one of the convoy’s vehicles,” the media spokesman for the MNF, Bill Young, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The blast left no casualties,” he noted. “Iraqi army forces sealed off the area after the explosion,” he also said. Basra is 590 km south of Baghdad. SH (P) 1