Eight Wounded, Including Child, In Baghdad Roadside Explosion

BAGHDAD, July 23 (AFP) - Eight Iraqis were wounded, including a little girl who lost a leg, when a bus they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb Friday in the northern part of the capital, police and hospital sources said.
"We have received eight injured, including an eight-year-old girl, whom we had to amputate her leg below the knee," said Doctor Ilham Ilah at a hospital in Khadimiya, north of the city.
A bus carrying 20 passengers ignored orders from police not to enter an area that was being cordoned off for a suspected roadside bomb, according to police and witnesses.
Roadside bombs are placed almost daily in the path of US military or Iraqi security forces patrols in Baghdad, but in many instances innocent civilians end up paying the price.