(VOI) -- Saturday's blast in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur was the result of a sticky improvised explosive device emplaced inside a civilian vehicle, the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) said.
"Today's blast in Ur neighborhood resulted from a sticky IED inside a civilian vehicle," BOC official spokesman, Maj. General Qassem Atta, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). Earlier on Saturday, the Iraqi authorities said seventeen civilians were killed or wounded in a car bomb attack that ripped through the neighborhood of Ur. "Today, a roadside car rigged with explosives detonated in an Ur street, northeastern Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding 11 others," a police source, who preferred to remain unnamed, |