(28 Jun 2009)
Al-Furat neighbourhood, western Baghdad
1. Wide shot, burnt out cars
2. Pan across burnt out cars
3. Iraqi policeman examining burnt out car
4. Smoke rising from wreckage
5. Smoke rising from burnt out car
6. Iraqi policeman examining burnt interior of car
7. Iraqi police looking at the wrecked car
8. Wide shot, Iraqi police around burnt out van
Ur neighbourhood, northeast Baghdad
9. Wide of US and Iraqi troops at blast site amid sand and dust (Baghdad is currently blanketed by a heavy sandstorm)
10. Close up of damaged US military truck amid sand storm and dust
11. Various of US and Iraqi troops at the blast site
12. Wide of fire truck
13. Wide of military vehicle visible through dust and sand
14. Wide of fire engine at the scene
STORYLINE:
One policeman was killed and 12 civilians wounded in two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital on Sunday.
A parked car bomb exploded at a parking lot belonging to a police training centre in western Baghdad killing one policeman and wounding six civilians according to police.
That blast, in the al-Furat neighbourhood of western Baghdad, also set fire to eight vehicles police said.
Meanwhile, in the Ur neighbourhood in northeast Baghdad, at least six civilians were wounded by a car bomb targeting a US patrol.
One of the US military vehicles in the patrol was damaged.
A damaged US military truck was visible at the scene, with US and Iraqi troops sealing off the blast site.
The blasts came two days ahead of US combat troops' withdrawal from Iraqi urban areas and cities on June 30 in accordance with a security pact concluded last year by Iraq and the US.
The pact, which came into effect on January 1, is part of an agreement for a phased withdrawal of all American forces by the end of 2011.
But after a week of attacks that left more than 250 people dead, there have been concerns that Iraqi forces will not be able to provide adequate security after the US troop withdrawal.
Also on Sunday, Baghdad was choked by a heavy sandstorm, which caused Baghdad airport to close and dozens of people to seek treatment at the hospital with respiratory problems.
Sandstorms are a regular occurrence in Baghdad although it is shielded from the desert by a thin strip of arable land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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