Seven civilians die in Iraq car bomb
12 April 2012
A car bomb in the Iraqi city of Fallujah killed seven civilians and wounded 20 today.
The explosion was triggered 150 yards from an army patrol. It comes days after the general election.
"The blast rocked the area and I found myself suddenly on the floor," said 30-year-old Mohammed Abdullah, a shopkeeper who was wounded in the blast. "Once I saw the smoke and the burning car, I immediately knew it was a bomb."
Fallujah, in Anbar province, was once a centre of the insurgency and was the target of a huge US assault in 2004, but Anbar has been relatively quiet in recent years.
