Iraqi Bomb Blasts Kill 19, Wounds 40 June 8, 2006 8:40 a.m. EST
Nidhi Sharma - All Headline News Contributor Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - Bombs struck a busy outdoor market and a police patrol in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 40.
Police Lt. Ali Abbas tells the Associated Press that the first explosion targeted a police patrol in the New Baghdad area in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and four civilians and wounding 11 people.
The explosion was followed about an hour later by a blast at a fruit market in the same area, shortly after the news that top Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed in an air strike north of Baghdad.
Police Col. Ahmed Abod says thirteen people were killed and 39 wounded when the bomb detonated at the entrance of the market, severely damaging several shops.
