Roadside bomb hits convoy, sets market ablaze

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Residents clean up after their shops burned down in eastern Baghdad on April 14. Several shops at the market were set on fire after a roadside bomb struck a U.S. Humvee, police said.


Roadside bomb hits convoy, sets market ablaze
By Hamid Ahmed - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Apr 15, 2008 6:50:27 EDT

BAGHDAD — An attack on a U.S. convoy sparked a large fire in an eastern Baghdad market Monday.

Dozens of stalls were set ablaze at 2 a.m. local time when a bomb exploded next to a convoy of U.S. military vehicles driving down a commercial street in the capital’s eastern district.

A Humvee was damaged in the blast, said an Iraqi police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Residents said more than a dozen U.S. and Iraqi firefighting vehicles rushed to the scene to put out the blaze, which continued until morning. The U.S. military said none of the soldiers involved was seriously hurt.

The U.S. military said militants firing rocket-propelled grenades ambushed an American patrol in eastern Baghdad late Sunday night. Armed helicopters and an Abrams tank repelled the attack, killing six of the gunmen, the statement said.


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