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Attacks Kills 10 In Baghdad

   VOA News 13 May 2010
   Iraqi  People, seen through a shrapnel hole, inspect the site of a car
   bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, 13 May 2010

Photo: AP

   Iraqi  People, seen through a shrapnel hole, inspect the site of a car
   bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, 13 May 2010

   Iraqi  officials say eight people were killed when a car bomb exploded
   outside a cafe in eastern Baghdad.
   Officials  say  the bombing occurred Wednesday evening in Sadr City, a
   mainly  Shi'ite  area  which  is  a stronghold of anti-American cleric
   Moqtada al-Sadr.
   The  area  where  the  bomb  blew  up is popular with young people who
   gather to play dominoes and drink tea.
   The  Associated Press quotes police as saying that the bomb appears to
   have  detonated  prematurely  because  three  suspected militants were
   inside the car when it exploded.
   Iraqi  officials  also  say  a roadside bomb struck a police patrol in
   central Baghdad wounding eight people, including five policemen.
   Also,  two  Iraqi  soldiers  were killed and seven wounded when a bomb
   they were trying to defuse detonated in Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad.
   The  attacks  come days after a string of shootings across the country
   killed  at  least  110  people  in what was the country's worst day of
   violence this year.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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