5 policemen killed, wounded in bomb blast in southern Baghdad
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday, that five policemen were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast targeted their patrol in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, before noon today, targeting a police patrol while passing in Arab Jabour Village in al-Dawra area in southern Baghdad, killing one of the patrol occupants and wounding four others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and evacuated the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while carried out a raid to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”