6 police members killed, wounded in bomb blast in southern Baghdad
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday, that six police members were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast targeted their patrol in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, at noon today, on a police patrol while passing in Arab Jabour in al-Darwa Village in southern Baghdad, killing one of its occupants and wounding five others.”
The source added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while cordoned off the area of the incident and barred approaching it.”