Civilian vehicles hit by car bomb

A CAR bomb hit a civilian convoy belonging to US-led coalition forces yesterday on the main highway to Baghdad’s airport, the Interior Ministry said.

Two sport utility vehicles were caught in the explosion as the convoy travelled through the western Amiriyah district, spokesman Col Adnan Abdul-Rahman said.

Earlier, a police officer at the scene said he believed the vehicles were hit by rocket-propelled grenades rather than a car bomb. One vehicle was overturned by the blast while the other burst into flames.