An explosion rocked a municipal building Tuesday in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, killing six Iraqis, two U.S. soldiers and two civilian U.S. Embassy employees, an embassy official said….
The U.S. Embassy statement didn’t identify the other victims.
The blast dramatizes the perils the war still poses for Americans despite a Pentagon report Monday that touted a sharp decrease in violence in Iraq in recent months.
The explosion also marked the third strike in two days involving local politicians and political institutions in Baghdad.
A city councilman on Monday fired on U.S. forces at a municipal building southeast of the capital in the Salman Pak area and killed two soldiers.
Separately, the head of Abu Dsheer City Council in Baghdad’s southern Dora area was gunned down at his home later Monday.
Last week, a bomb ripped through Baghdad’s Hurriya district near a neighborhood advisory council meeting where U.S. troops were stationed, killing 63 people and wounding 71 others.
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