Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Baby survives Baghdad bomb in slain mother's lap

BAGHDAD (AFP) – A baby miraculously survived a Baghdad car bombing cradled in his mother's lap as she was burned alive in a blast that claimed the lives of eight people on Tuesday, witnesses said.

The baby boy's father was also seriously wounded in the attack not far from a holy Shiite shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of northern Baghdad, police and witnesses said.

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