Ahlul Bayt News Agency ; BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Six civilians were wounded in a powerful explosion apparently targeting a Shiite official near a fuel station in downtown Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.
A roadside bomb ripped through a commercial area near a fuel station in Sa'doun Street in central Baghdad at about 10:30 a.m. local time (0730 GMT). The explosion apparently targeted the car of Sa'id Ne'mah Jaiyash, head of the office of the Shiite politician Mowafaq al-Rubaie, a former Iraqi national security advisor, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Jaiyash escaped the blast unhurt but his car and several nearby cars were damaged by the explosion, wounding six civilians at the scene, the source added.
Earlier, the source put the toll at five people wounded by the powerful explosion which was heard across the city.
In the morning, earlier police reports said that an employee of Iraq's Integrity Committee was shot dead and four more people were wounded in separate gunfire and bomb attacks across the capital, while two Katyusha rockets struck the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad without immediate report of casualties.
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