.- At least six people were killed and 31 injured when five car bombs exploded in and around Baghdad, police said. The first car was parked in the neighborhood of Al Elam, southwest of Baghdad, exploded as a police patrol, the sources told Efe. The explosion killed two people, one an officer, and wounding eight, including four officers.In addition, a convoy of vehicles was badly damaged, the sources added. A second car bomb exploded in the Al Tayui, 30 miles north of Baghdad, and caused two deaths and four injuries. Several cars were parked nearby, and some buildings and shops were damaged. The third car bomb exploded near the Diana hotel in central Baghdad, causing one dead and six wounded, while the fourth vehicle laden with explosives exploded at an intersection, also at the heart of the capital, while a police patrol, wounding five people.
A fifth car bomb exploded as a group of Iranian visitors to the town of Al Kazimiya, on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, killing one and injuring eight others. In Al Kazimiyah is a major Shiite shrine and a place of pilgrimage for the faithful of the neighboring country. Today's attacks with car bombs were carried out three days after fifty people died in two suicide bombings in the city of Karbala, some 110 kilometers south of Baghdad.
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