14 wounded in Amara blast

MISSAN / IraqiNews.com: Fourteen people were wounded, two of them seriously, in an initial count of casualties from Monday’s earlier car bomb attack in central Amara, a source from the Missan Health Department said. “The al-Sadr Public and al-Zahraa Hospital have received 14 wounded civilians, two of them in a critical condition, after a blast that ripped through central Amara today,” the source told IraqiNews.com. Meanwhile, an official security source said seven vehicles parked near the explosion site totally burnt and nine others were damaged. Earlier, an official security source in Missan province said a car bomb blast in central al-Amara left dozens of people wounded, mostly civilians, already rushed to nearby hospitals in the city. “A car bomb went off 100 meters away from the Missan call center, which used to be Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s office in Missan before Operation Bashaer al-Salam (Promise of Peace) was launched on June 19,” the source told IraqiNews.com. “Iraqi and U.S. forces are now in the explosion scene,” the source said. Amara, the capital city of Missan, lies 390 km south of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1