2 civilians injured in northern Babel

BABEL /IraqiNews.com: Two civilians were wounded on Wednesday in a bomb explosion in a market in northern Babel, a police source said. “A sticky improvised explosive device (IED), planted on a motorcycle went off in al-Musayab market, north of Hilla, injuring two civilians and destroying the motorcycle,” the source told IraqiNews.com. Babel, a Shiite province that lies 100 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has an area of 6,468 square kilometers (2,497.3 sq mi), with an estimated population of 1,385,783 people in 2003. The provincial capital is the town of al-Hilla. The ancient ruins of Babylon (Babil, after which the region is named) are also in the province. SH (P) 1