BAGHDAD, March 2 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber detonated his booby-trapped car at an Iraqi army base in central Baghdad Wednesday, killing at least six and wounding 30 others.
Security sources said the attacker managed to sneak into the base in al-Muthanna airport after fooling the guards at the entrance.
At least six members of the national guards were killed and 30 others were wounded in the attack, a day after a massive car bombing in Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad, claimed the lives of 125 people, mostly conscripts in the armed forces.
The Muthanna base has been the target of five suicide attacks in the past few months.
Iraqi national guardsmen, backed by armored vehicles, cordoned off the scene of the blast to facilitate rescue operations as U.S. helicopters hovered overhead, witnesses said.
In an incident Tuesday, three gunmen in a car assassinated an Iraqi judge, one of 20 named to try ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for war crimes and genocide.
Barweez Mohammed Ahmed, a 59-year-old Kurd, died when gunmen sprayed his car with automatic rifle fire in the northern Baghdad suburb of Raghiba Hatoun. His son, a 26-year-old lawyer, was also killed.
