Iraq: Car Bombings Kill Scores Across the Country
Version 0 of 1. A series of car bombings across Iraq killed at least 56 people on Monday and wounded dozens. The worst took place in the Shiite-majority town of Khalistimes past in Diyala Province, in the east. At least 32 people were killed there and 58 were wounded when the car bomb tore through a commercial street, a police official said. Another attack, Basra Province in the south, also targeted a busy commercial district, killing 10 people and wounding at least 25, a senior security official said. In Baghdad, the police said at least 14 people were killed and 25 wounded in an explosion in the northeastern neighborhood of Husseiniya. |