Roadside bomb kills seven-year-old boy in Baghdad

A roadside bomb exploded near a US military convoy in Baghdad today, missing the soldiers but killing a seven-year-old boy who was selling cans of black-market petrol on the street and wounding nine other civilians.

Today’s blast hit Iraqi pedestrians in Askan, a commercial district of western Baghdad at about 8.45am local time, and destroyed several parked cars, said police Capt. Qassim Hussein and Dr. Mohammed Jawad at Yarmouk Hospital. The wounded included a 10-year-old Iraqi girl, they said.