Bus Bomb Kills 12 in Baghdad

Follows a series of bombings in the capital
By Michael Foreman,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 3, 2008 9:58 AM CDT
Bus Bomb Kills 12 in Baghdad
A US soldier enters a home during a patrol in a village near Muqdadiyah, in Iraq's volatile Diyala province, Aug. 2, 2008.    (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Bombs ripped through a minibus this morning in Baghdad, reports CNN, killing 12 and injuring 22 after a string of similar bombings in the region. Two more roadside bombs injured nine near a hospital and two near a convoy of SUVs. Elsewhere, a soldier was killed in an unrelated accident, marking August's first US casualty. (More Iraq war stories.)

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