Attacks in Iraq kill at least 14
Two separate parked car bombs detonated today in Baghdad’s Sadr City and in western Baghdad to kill at least 10 people and wound 51, police said.
The first explosion occurred in Sadr City, a sprawling Shiite district of the capital and killed four people and wounded 41, said police Lt. Ahmed Qassim.
AP Television News footage taken in the minutes following the blast showed a minivan in flames, bodies on the street and wounded being rushed to hospital in pickup trucks.
A flock of frightened sheep wandered aimlessly through a crowd of rushing people.
The explosion occurred shortly before dark in a popular al-Hay grocery market.
The second bombing took place in western Baghdad, next to the upscale Mansour district and killed five people and wounded 13 others, said police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razza.
Earlier a suicide car bomber ploughed into a fuel station in northern Iraq, killing four civilians and wounding 43.
The explosion occurred about 1.15pm local time in Tal Afar, 260 miles north-west of Baghdad, said police Brigadier General Abdul-Hamid Khalaf.
It was the second suicide strike against the city in just over two months.
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