3 wounded in Babel car bomb blast

BABEL / IraqiNews.com: A car bomb went off in northern Babel on Thursday, leaving three people wounded and destroying several adjacent pharmacies, a police source in the province said. “A light pickup truck went off at 04:00 p.m. on Thursday in the area of al-Iskan, al-Iskandariya district, (50 km) north of al-Hilla, wounding three people and destroying pharmacies nearby,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He did not give more details. Hilla, the capital city of Babel province, lies 100 km south of Baghdad. MH (P)/AmR 1