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Basra bomb kill 4, wounds 9
11/11/2003 14:16 - (SA)
Basra - Four Iraqis died, two of them policemen, and nine people were hurt, when a bomb exploded in the centre of Basra on Tuesday, police Colonel Mohammed Khazim al-Ali told AFP.
A second blast echoed over dowtown Basra about midday, an AFP correspondent reported, but it was not immediately known if there were further casualties.
"Some of the injured are school children. Boys and girls use this road early in the morning to go to school," Ali, the head of internal security forces in Iraq's southern capital, said.
He blamed loyalists of ousted president Saddam Hussein for the first blast, a roadside bomb which blew up a civilian car at about 08:30, and damaged two more cars.
British forces had cordoned off the area of the first blast, which included at least one school.
A spokesperson for the British army, which controls the Basra area, said there were casualties in the morning blast but did not know how many or the gravity.
- AFP
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