Six killed in Iraq car bombing

A car bomb detonated today next to an Iraqi police convoy and killed six people, including a six-year-old child and five police officers.

The car blew up in Muqdadiya, about 56 miles north of Baghdad.

Najim Abid, a medic at Muqdadiya general hospital, said five policemen and a child were killed by the blast, which injured sixteen civilians and three policemen.