BAGHDAD HIT BY MULTIPLE BOMBINGS
Baku, August 6 (AZERTAC). Iraqi authorities say a policeman was killed at least 26 other people were wounded in roadside blasts in Baghdad Friday.
Reports say the policeman was killed in western Baghdad when a bomb exploded near a police patrol. Five others were wounded in the attack, at least two of them police and two civilians.
Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, a roadside bomb near an army patrol in the western part of the city wounded six , including two soldiers. And two policemen and 13 civilians were injured after a bomb exploded in northern Baghdad.
Thursday, police said gunmen stormed a Baghdad money exchange and killed three people. It was the latest in a rash of daylight robberies of banks or financial centers in the Iraqi capital.
On Thursday, a bomb attached to a Ramadi local health department pickup truck exploded, killing the driver and wounding three bystanders.
Earlier, police officials said three traffic officers were killed in drive-by shootings late Wednesday in western Baghdad.
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