{"id":4792,"date":"2014-03-22T05:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T12:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2014-03-22T05:28:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T12:28:32","slug":"iraqi-officials-double-bombing-kills-7-people-north-of-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/22\/iraqi-officials-double-bombing-kills-7-people-north-of-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi officials: Double bombing kills 7 people north of Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/baghdad.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4809\" alt=\"baghdad\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/baghdad-300x155.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/baghdad-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/baghdad.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BAGHDAD &#8211; Iraqi officials say a double bombing has killed seven people in a city north of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials say the attack took place on Saturday morning, when a roadside bomb exploded in a commercial street in the northern city of Tikrit. Minutes later, a car bomb struck policemen who had arrived to inspect the first blast.<\/p>\n<p>The officials say five policemen and two civilians were killed and 18 people were wounded in the bombings. Tikrit is 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Violence has spiked in Iraq since last April, a surge unseen since 2008. The relentless attacks have become the government&#8217;s most serious challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BAGHDAD &#8211; Iraqi officials say a double bombing has killed seven people in a city north of Baghdad. Police &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[1269,1268,1267],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-baghdad","tag-bombing","tag-double","mauthors-sameer-n-yacoub","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}