Suicide bomber kills 25 in Iraq
A suicide car bomber killed 25 people and wounded 71 others in a massive blast south of the Iraqi capital this morning, a senior Interior Ministry official said.
Witnesses said the attack occurred in Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, where a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of people applying for work at a government office.
Dozens of bodies could be seen laying on the ground after the blast, and half a dozen ambulances raced to the scene, witnesses said.
Severed legs, hands and human flesh were scattered around the area.
In a separate attack just north of Hilla, a car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint, killing at least one policeman and wounding several others, police said. That blast occurred in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad.
