New Year’s eve car bomb kills eight in Baghdad

Bystanders said they saw several bodies in the rubble of the Nabil restaurant in the upscale Karrada district of Baghdad, which was hit by Wednesday night’s blast less than three hours before the clock ticked over to 2004.

Iraqi police lieutenant Amir Bashir said four to five people were killed, while Sarmad Mozaffer, a doctor at Ibn Nafiz hospital said an American and two Britons were among the 24 people injured in the blast.