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4 killed, 21 wounded in Iraq car bombing

25 August 2010 03:18 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. At least four people were killed and 21 others were wounded Tuesday in a car bomb explosion in Iraq’s eastern city of Baquba, according to local police, APA reports quoting news.inhuanet.com website.

A car bomb targeting a patrol which belong to the governor of the Diyala province, was detonated in Diyala’s capital city at local time 18:10 p.m. (1510 GMT). The governor was not with them when the explosion took place.

A bodyguard of the governor was among the dead, and the secretary of the government was injured in the incident, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The explosion destroyed at least five nearby cars and several shops around the site, added the source.

The police has cordoned off the area after the deadly attack, the source said, while ambulances rushed the wounded to the nearby hospital in the city.

Violence and sporadic high-profile attacks are still common in Iraqi cities as part of recent deterioration in security which shaped a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normalcy in the country about five months after violence-torn Iraq held parliamentary elections on March 7.

U.S. forces have pulled out of Iraqi cities and are working to formally end combat operations by September 1, cutting the U.S. military force from just under 90,000 to 50,000. However, some local analysts still worry about whether the Iraqi forces are ready to replace the American soldiers amid continued insurgent attacks.