Blast in Baghdad leaves 16 killed, wounded

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Two successive blasts went off near a patrol of the 24th Brigade in the area of Abu Ghraib, western Baghdad, leaving two soldiers killed and 14 others, including the brigade commander, wounded on Saturday, a police source said. “Two successive blasts targeted Bakr Amin, the commander of the 24th Brigade, just as it was passing in the western Baghdad area of Abu Ghraib, leaving him seriously wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The two explosions, with only one minute’s interval, also left two soldiers killed and 13 other patrolmen wounded,” he added. The source did not give further details about the incident. AmR (P) 2