Blast in Iraqi market kills five: Police
Najaf
(Iraq),
Sep
8:
An
explosion
in
a
market
in
the
holy
Shi'ite
Iraqi
town
of
Kufa
today
killed
five
people
and
wounded
eight,
police
said.
The local hospital said four people were killed and six were wounded. One police source said a roadside bomb had caused the blast, another said it was a grenade.
Kufa is one of three religiously important cities for Iraq's majority Shi'ites that lie south of Baghdad. It is also the home-base of fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
In May, a suicide car bomber in the town killed 10 people when he drove a minibus into an open market packed with morning shoppers.
That attack bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
Reuters
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Story first published: Saturday, September 8, 2007, 17:09 [IST]