By Xinhua
Baghdad : The death toll of a truck bombing targeted Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Tuesday rose to 15 in the night, with 27 more wounded, a police source said.
Earlier, the source put the toll at eight killed and 15 wounded.
The blast occurred after dusk in southeastern Baghdad’s Al-Obeidi neighborhood, from which series of mortars and rockets were fired at a nearby U.S. military base on Tuesday afternoon, according to a police officer.
A truck parked there suddenly came into explosion when the police and army rushed to a suspect site of rocket launches targeted at U.S. military bases and just began inspecting the area, he said, adding that 15 police cars were also damaged in the blast.
Eight Katyusha rockets simultaneously struck two U.S. bases in eastern Baghdad earlier on Tuesday, causing no casualties, an Interior Ministry source said.
On Monday, over ten rockets hit the area near Baghdad’s international airport and inside the adjoining U.S. Camp Victory base, killing five Iraqis and injuring two U.S. soldiers.