Car bomb in Amara leaves dozens of wounded

MISSAN / IraqiNews.com: A car bomb blast in central al-Amara on Monday left dozens of people wounded, mostly civilians, already rushed to nearby hospitals in the city, an official security source in Missan province said. “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, adding the wounded were taken to the al-Sadr Public Hospital and al-Zahraa Hospital. Amara, the capital city of Missan, lies 390 km south of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1