Explosions kill 85 in Iraq
Iraq, Military, 9/30/2005

The number of victims of the three booby trapped cars in Iraq which were detonated on Thursday evening in Balad city, north of Baghdad, resulted in killing 85 persons and injuring other 115 with large number of them in critical health conditions.

Iraqi medical and security sources said that the three cars were blown up simultaneously at 7 p.m. ( local time in Iraq ) near a bank, a vegetable shopping center, and another civilian area in the city of a Shiite majority situated within Salah Eddine governorate.

In al-Azameyah quarters of the Sunni majority in Baghdad clashes took place between gunmen and Iraqi soldiers after one booby trapped car went off in a vehicle for the Iraqi army. The confrontations resulted in killing one of the passersby and injuring two Iraqi soldiers and 14 civilians.

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