Double Baghdad bombing wounds 17- Police

Baghdad, May 8: Seventeen people, including several policemen, were wounded today in a twin bomb attack in eastern Baghdad, police sources said.

A roadside bomb detonated, wounding two civilians, and when a police patrol rushed to the scene on Palestine Street a car bomb went off, wounding four of the officers and 11 others.

Two car bombs in the capital yesterday killed nine people and a suicide car bomber in the Shi'ite city of Kerbala blasted a crowded street. Senior officials disputed the death toll of 21 given by police and medics who dealt with the casualties.

Reuters