Baghdad , March . 25 (BNA) Four people were killed today by a roadside explosion targeting a minibus in a northern Baghdad district, eyewitnesses said.
Eyewitnesses said that the attack on the bus in the al- Waziriya district killed four of the bus' passengers and injured two others. Two policemen near the site of the explosion were also injured. In a separate attack, two people were killed and one injured by gunshots fired by the US military in al-Ratba, 500 kilometres west of Baghdad. Ahmed al-Kobaisy, a doctor at al-Ratba hospital said the three victims were shot at when their car approached the site of a US army base on the road. They were admitted to the hospital after which two of them died of their wounds.