February 4, 2012  Print Email | Nine killed in Baghdad blast
Second attack in the district this month
Posted by Agencies at 12:46 PM GMT on Mar 23, 2009 | BAGHDAD (Reuters): Nine people were killed and 23 wounded in a bomb attack at a west Baghdad bus terminal today, Iraqi police said, the second bomb attack in the predominantly Sunni Arab Abu Ghraib district this month.
A source in Abu Ghraib hospital said it had received eight bodies from the blast and treated nine people for wounds so far.
Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq in the last year to lows rarely seen since mid-2003, but militants, mostly linked to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, have shown themselves still capable of launching devastating bomb attacks.
On 10 March, a suicide bomber killed at least 28 people in Abu Ghraib. The bomb targeted tribal leaders and security officials who had gathered for a reconciliation conference.
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