BAGHDAD: The car bomb and a second explosion killed police and civilians here on Wednesday. Twin bomb blasts have killed 18 people and wounded 53 in central Baghdad as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an unannounced visit to Iraq, police said.
The car bomb and a second explosion killed police and civilians in the Nahdha neighbourhood of central Baghdad, near a traffic police station and a hospital.
Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq, where the US-led invasion in 2003 unleashed years of sectarian bloodshed and insurgent attacks. But car bombs, assassinations and other violence are still routine.
Brown arrived in Baghdad morning on his fourth visit as the British leader. He met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and discussed plans to withdraw the remaining 4,100 British troops from southern Iraq by the end of July 2009.
Wednesday’s bombings were some distance away, on the other side of the Tigris River from the heavily fortified Green Zone where Brown met Mr Maliki.
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