Baghdad bomb kills one, nine wounded as political leaders end meeting
BAGHDAD – One person was killed and eight wounded by a planted bomb Sunday in Baghdad, amid tight security and tensions between a wave of protesters and security forces.
“An explosion struck the Dora neighborhood in Baghdad, killing one person and wounding eight others,” an interior ministry official told Rudaw.
“The security forces arrived at site and transferred the wounded to hospital,” the source added.
Baghdad has been under tight security since Saturday, when thousands of protesters broke into the capital’s fortified Green Zone and stormed the parliament building.
That happened after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters have been staging demonstrations for months, said he was fed up with a government and parliament that kept promising reforms but failing to deliver.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi ended a meeting Sunday afternoon with President Fuad Masum and the parliament speaker, presumably to discuss the crisis, but there were no immediate reports about what they had discussed or decided.
“An explosion struck the Dora neighborhood in Baghdad, killing one person and wounding eight others,” an interior ministry official told Rudaw.
“The security forces arrived at site and transferred the wounded to hospital,” the source added.
Baghdad has been under tight security since Saturday, when thousands of protesters broke into the capital’s fortified Green Zone and stormed the parliament building.
That happened after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters have been staging demonstrations for months, said he was fed up with a government and parliament that kept promising reforms but failing to deliver.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi ended a meeting Sunday afternoon with President Fuad Masum and the parliament speaker, presumably to discuss the crisis, but there were no immediate reports about what they had discussed or decided.