Six people killed in Baghdad blast

Eight others were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in Baghdad's western Amriya district.

A roadside bomb killed six people and wounded eight in Baghdad's western Amriya district on Thursday, police and hospital officials said.

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Another police source said two had been killed, one of them a child, and seven wounded.

He said the target of the bomb had been an Iraqi army patrol. No soldiers were among the casualties.