Death toll in Iraq car bomb rises to 30
A car bomb at a market in a poor Shiite district on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad killed at least 30 people and wounded 38 others at sunset today, police said.
Interior Ministry police Maj. Falah al-Mhamadawi said the explosives-packed car was parked in front of fruit and vegetable stands in the market at Nahrawan, about 20 miles east of Baghdad, a poor suburb heavily populated by Shiite Muslims.
At Baghdad’s al-Kindi hospital, police Lieutenant Abdulal Ibrahim said the dead and injured were brought to the hospital in pickup trucks and residents told him there were more victims coming.
Shiites have suffered the brunt of a massive campaign of bomb and shooting attacks launched on Wednesday and claimed by al-Qaida in Iraq.
The Iraqi insurgency is predominantly Sunni Muslim and has vowed to continue stirring sectarian conflict as the date approaches for the October 15 referendum on a new constitution, which most militant Sunnis have already rejected.
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