of the victims of the bombing on Sunday were police officers and civilian bystanders at least four people injured after a bomb at the entrance to a Catholic Church in the Centre of the Iraqi capital explodierteBagdad.The explosion outside the heart of Jesus Church in the District of Karrada broke his window and sent shrapnel flying.
The attack took place after worshippers had left on Easter Sunday service.
Iraqi Christians were the victims of a spate of attacks, including one about a Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad last year 53 people dead left.
There were once about 1.5 million Christians in the Iraq, but more than two-thirds are accepted, that have fled since the US led invasion in 2003.
Hundreds of families have moved in the Kurdish region.
'Full of Fear'The victims of the bombing were two police officers and two civilian spectators on Sunday, security officials said.
But an official and a TV cameraman for the Reuters news agency said, received four policemen and three bystanders treatment in the hospital.
Already left the believers who had visited the Easter Sunday service at the heart of Jesus ChurchOne of the injured policemen, Hassan Dalli, said: "We had to eat, dividing the police there, when the bomb reaches the scene only exploded."
There were no specific threats before the attack spent, but security was nevertheless strengthened on Easter Sunday outside churches in the capital and two northern provinces, where many Christians life.
"Our lives in the Iraq full of fear," said father Hanna Saad Sirop believer in the St. Joseph's Chaldean Church in Baghdad.
"But we have life in believe and trust..." "We must trust God Almighty."
In other violence Sunday, a captain was by killed a "sticky bomb" attached, a vehicle in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.
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