A car bomb killed eight people near an Iraqi army checkpoint in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. According to the AP, they said all of the dead were civilians. Ten people were hurt.
Police said a parked car exploded near a restaurant on a busy commercial street.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc accused U.S. forces on Wednesday of killing a senior official near the Iraqi city of Najaf. The U.S. military said Iraqi troops with U.S. advisers raided the home of a man who was implicated in a bomb attack on a police chief in October. A U.S. statement said a U.S. soldier shot the man dead after seeing him point his rifle at an Iraqi soldier during the raid.
According to Reuters, Nassar al-Rubaei, head of the Sadrist bloc in parliament, accused occupation forces of storming the home of Saheb al- Amiri at dawn and killing him in front of this family.
