Baghdad Blast Was Controlled Explosion, No Casualties: Police Official
By Reuters
May 9, 2019
BAGHDAD — A blast in Baghdad's Sadr City district on Thursday was a controlled explosion and caused no deaths or injuries, an Iraqi police official said.
Colonel Jamal Hameed told Reuters a parcel had been found on the side of the road near a market and was detonated by an ordnance team sent by the joint military-police Baghdad Operations Command.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/05/09/world/middleeast/09reuters-iraq-security-blast-police.html
Blast in Baghdad, hopefully, this is all it was.
