Dozens killed in Iraq bomb
(AP)
Updated: 2006-05-29 19:44
A slew of car and roadside bombs killed more than 30 people in Iraq on
Monday, a day after a tribal chief who challenged Iraq's most feared terrorist
and sent fighters to help U.S. troops battle al-Qaida in western Iraq was gunned
down.
The explosions began just after dawn with a roadside bomb that killed 10
Iraqis who worked for an organization of Iranian dissidents living in Iraq. The
blast targeted a public bus near Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala
province, an area notorious for such attacks. Twelve people were wounded, police
said.
All the dead were Iraqi employees heading to the main camp of the Mujahedeen
Khalq, which opposes Iran's regime, the group said.
A car bomb placed near Baghdad's main Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque killed at least
nine Iraqis and wounded 25, police said. The bomb exploded at noon in north
Baghdad's Azamiyah neighborhood and was so powerful it vaporized the vehicle.
Rescue crews and Iraqi army soldiers carried people on stretchers to ambulances,
AP Television News footage showed.
Another bomb planted in a parked minivan killed at least seven and wounded 20
at the entrance to an open-air market selling clothes in the northern Baghdad
suburb of Kazimiyah, police said.
A parked car exploded near Ibin al-Haitham college in Azamiyah, also in
northern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding at least five, including
four Iraqi soldiers, police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said.
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