Baghdad, January 18: One civilian was killed late Monday when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in western Baghdad, a security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Tuesday.
“An improvised explosive device went off late Monday inside a supermarket in al-Jameaa neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing the owner and damaging the supermarket,” he said.
The official said the police’s anti-explosives department also managed to defuse another bomb, planted near a school in al-Khaleej neighborhood in the capital’s southeast.
On Tuesday, three explosions rocked southern Baghdad, leaving eight people injured.
Three people were wounded in an IED blast which targeted a civilian vehicle in al-Dora’s al-Iskan neighborhood.
A second bomb exploded in the al-Sidiya region ripped through a police patrol, injuring a civilian and a policeman.
Meanwhile, a Sahwa tribal security official survived an assassination attempt when a bomb exploded near his car, injuring two of his companions.
The deadliest attack, however, took place in the central Iraqi city of Tikrit where a bombing attack claimed the lives of nearly 50 people and left around 150 others wounded.
The attack which targeted a police recruitment site in the middle of the city was the worst to hit Iraq in more than two months.
Tikrit, the birthplace of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, lies about 140 kilometers (some 87 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
—Agencies