Nine Iraqi soldiers killed in Baghdad car bomb

BAGHDAD - Nine Iraqi soldiers were killed and 17 people wounded in a car bomb attack in Baghdad on Wednesday, an interior ministry official said.
Six the wounded were also soldiers, the source said.
The attack took place in Dura, a restive neighbourhood in southern Baghdad where insurgents have relocated in recent months after US-Iraqi raids against their strongholds south of the capital.
The fresh car bomb came just hours after a suicide bomber struck a police recruitment centre near a Kurdish party headquarters in the northern city of Arbil, killing at least 46 people and wounding about 70.

05/04/2005 18:28 GMT