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Iraqi police official: Bomb in commercial area in southwest Baghdad kills at least 13 people
Original Publication Date: October 7, 2014 1:24AM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 9:55PM
BAGHDAD – Iraqi police officials say a car bomb in a busy commercial neighbourhood in southwest Baghdad has killed at least 13 people.
Officials say the bombing happened in the al-Mashtal neighbourhood. At least 31 people, many of them police officers, were wounded in the blast. Most of those killed were civilians.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. All of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.
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