Car Bomb In Central Iraq Kills Five

2 April 2005 -- A car bomb killed five people including four police officers on patrol in central Iraq early today.

Police said that the car bomb in Khan Bani Sa'd near Ba'qubah also injured two other police officers and three civilians.

In Baghdad today insurgents in a car gunned down education official Hassib Zamil outside the Education Ministry offices in the Al-Sadr City neighborhood.

(AFP/AP)

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