Baghdad - A spate of blasts rocked the Iraqi capital Baghdad
on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 38, police said.
In the predominantly Sunni district of Azamiyah in northern
Baghdad, at least 12 people were killed and 23 injured, most of them
seriously, police said, when a vehicle parked on a commercial street
exploded near the passport office on Maghreb street.
In central Baghdad, at least nine people were injured, three of
them policemen, when a bomb went off near the city's main Kindi
hospital, police sources told the Voices of Iraq VOI news agency.
Shortly after that blast, another bomb went off near the Ghadir
bridge in the city centre, injuring two people, the sources told VOI,
while in south-west Baghdad, four people were injured when a bomb
went off targeting a police patrol on Baya bridge, security sources
told the news agency.
The relative calm in Baghdad has been frequently shattered by
deadly attacks. In the last major bout of violence, three female
suicide bombers targeted Shiite pilgrims during a religious event
nearly a week ago. At least 35 people died in the blasts.
Separately, the US military in Iraq said Sunday that one of its
soldiers died in a road accident north of Baghdad - the first troop
fatality in August - while two other soldiers were charged with the
murder of an Iraqi detainee.
The military said in a statement that the vehicle accident on
Saturday, which left another US soldier injured, was under
investigation.
In another statement, the military said that Staff Sgt Hal M
Warner and 1st Lt Michael C Behenna were charged on Saturday with
premeditated murder, assault, making a false official statement and
obstruction of justice.
'The charges followed a criminal investigation into the death of
Ali Mansur Mohammed, a detainee initially believed to have been
released by coalition forces on or about May 16,' the statement said.
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