Bomb kills four in minibus at central Baghdad

Baghdad, Feb 19: A bomb inside a minibus in central Baghdad killed four people today, witnesses said.

A Reuters photographer saw four charred bodies lying on the street after the explosion blew out the top of the bus in the Karrada district, a religiously mixed area.

Police said the blast was caused by a bomb planted inside the bus. They said two people were killed and four wounded in the attack.

Yesterday, two car bombs tore through a crowded market area of a mainly Shi'ite district in eastern Baghdad, killing 60 people in the worst attack since US and Iraqi troops launched a security crackdown in the city last week.

The Baghdad crackdown, dubbed Operation Imposing Law, is seen as a last-ditch attempt to avert all-out civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.

Reuters