Number of persons injured in IED blast in Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com – A number of civilians have been injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast close to a railway station in southern Iraq’s Basra city on Sunday, a Railway Director said.   “An IED blew up close to Basra’s Maaqal Railway Station on Sunday, wounding a number of people, who were driven to hospitals for treatment,” one of its directors, Karim Chakhiour, told IraqiNews.com news agency. Basra, the center of the Province carrying the same name, is 590 km to the south of Baghdad. SKH (TP)/SR 696