Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070717-01
July 17, 2007

Rusafa car bombings kill two, wound three others
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq — Two Iraqi civilians were  killed and three more wounded in two separate vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks July 16 in the Rusafa District of eastern Baghdad.

The two civilians were killed at approximately 1:10 p.m. when insurgents detonated the second of two car bombs in Rusafa. Two more civilians were wounded in the attack. In the first blast, at 9:18 a.m., an Iraqi Police officer was wounded and two vehicles, one belonging to the police, were damaged.

Following both attacks, Soldiers with the 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division rushed to the scene and sealed off the area. The wounded were transported to Medical City for treatment.

It was the second straight day car bomb attacks have struck the eastern Baghdad, Rusafa District.

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