WRAP 2 Car bombs kill at least 8 and injure 41 adds hospital

(10 Jul 2006) Sadr City 1. Wide of area where the two bombs exploded 2. Various of people near to exploded charred remains of vehicles 3. Various of damage to collapsed buildings with rubble and fire engine and firefighters on site. Baghdad 4. Wide shot al Imam Ali Hospital, ambulance arriving. 5. Casualty ward with many injured arriving from bomb blast. (various) 6. Injured in hospital with doctors in attendance. 7. Relatives with injured. 8. Heavily bandaged man on stretcher is wheeled into hospital. 9. Dead bodies lie in corridor. 10. Exterior hospital. Baghdad 11. Men securing coffin on top of vehicle with morgue in background (the dead are from Sunday's violence) 12. Various of men securing another coffin on top of vehicle 13. Various of relatives of dead sitting on ground crying 14. Vehicles with coffins driving to grave site STORYLINE: Two car bombs exploded one after the other in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight and wounding 41, police and hospital officials said. The violence began when a car parked near a repair shop on the edge of the Shiite slum of Sadr City blew up, followed within minutes by a suicide car bomber who drove into the crowd that had gathered near the site. AP Television News footage showed the devastated repair shop with a crumpled roof and the blackened hulks of cars on the street outside. Meanwhile in Baghdad's Palestine Street on Monday, a roadside bomb (IED- improvised explosive device) struck a police patrol near a restaurant elsewhere in eastern Baghdad, wounding three policemen, police Lieutenant Ahmed Qassim said. Funeral preparations took place throughout the capital city on Monday morning. The bombings came a day after masked Shiite gunmen ambushed Sunni Arabs in western Baghdad in a rampage that killed 41 people amid a dramatic escalation of sectarian violence. Masked Shiite gunmen roamed through west Baghdad's Jihad neighbourhood on Sunday, dragging Sunnis from their cars, picking them out on the street and killing them . Hours later, two car bombs exploded near a Shiite mosque in the city's north, killing 17 people and wounding 38 in what appeared to be a reprisal for Sunday's attack, police said. Black-clad Shiite militiamen manned checkpoints on roads into most major Shiite neighbourhoods to guard against revenge attacks, as scattered clashes occurred across the Iraqi capital. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...