BAGHDAD, March 18 Kyodo A car bom...

BAGHDAD, March 18 Kyodo

A car bomb explod near a inn in Iraq's southern city of Basra onward Thursday, killing five Iraqi civilians, according to the Associated Press

The report quot police as saying four men and a male child were killed in the explosion occurr near the al-Zeiytoun inn in central Basra. Several the public were injured, it said.

Reuter quot witnesses as saying the blast was near the Mirbad inn in the center of town, which had been regularly used for recents briefings by the British military, in charge of security in Basra, and on the civilian administration in the city.

The blast came a day after a car bomb attack in succession a Baghdad hotel, which U officials said killed around 17 people

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