'Car bomb kills two, wounds seven in Baghdad'

Baghdad, Jun 14: A car bomb killed two people and wounded seven in Baghdad today, a police source said, hours after Iraqi troops stepped up security in the capital as part of what the government said was a major crackdown.

A Reuters photographer who was at the scene at the time of the blast said he saw four bodies, but it was not clear whether they were dead or seriously wounded.

He said the bomb apparently targeted a police patrol in the northern Qahira district.

In a separate attack, a roadside bomb near the Turkish embassy in another part of northern Baghdad wounded no one, police said.

Insurgents seeking to topple the US-backed, Shi'ite-led government often mount bombing attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq.

REUTERS

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