Car bomb kills at least 5, wounds 8 in Baghdad

Tuesday, December 26, 2006, 10:32 [IST]

BAGHDAD, Dec 25 (Reuters) A car bomb killed at least five people and wounded eight when it exploded on a busy commercial street in a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad, police said.

The bomb, triggered by remote control, targeted shoppers on the main street of the New Baghdad district, a police source said.

Insurgents have often targeted Shi'ite strongholds in central Iraq with bombings as part of a wider sectarian conflict that threatens to spark all-out civil war and undermine a Shi'ite-led government of national unity.

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