Truck bomb, attacks kill at least 48 in Iraq

Published on November 22, 2013 by admin    ·(TOTAL VIEWS 1,034)      No Comments

BAGHDAD : A truck bomb tore through an outdoor vegetable market in northeastern Iraq, the deadliest of a series of attacks Thursday that killed at least 48 people, officials said.

The explosion in the town of Sadiyah, some 140 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of Baghdad, is the latest in a wave of attacks that has swept across Iraq since April, pushing violence to levels unseen since the country teetered on the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.

Two police officers said witnesses told them that a man parked the truck containing the bomb in the market and asked workers to unload the vegetables before leaving the vehicle.

The officers said at least 45 people were also wounded in the attack.Two medical officials confirmed the casualty figures.

Meanwhile Thursday, a suicide bomber set off his explosives-laden belt at an army checkpoint in the town of Taji north of Baghdad, killing six soldiers and wounding 12, a police officer and a medical official said.

In Baghdads northern Kasra neighborhood, a bomb attached to an army officers car killed his son and wounded five civilian pedestrians, a police officer and a medical official said.

The officer was not in the car at the time of the explosion, authorities said.A car bomb explosion followed by other two bombs in a commercial area of Baghdads western Amiriyah neighborhood killed eight civilians and wounded 15, a police officer and a medical official said.

And in Baghdads southeastern Bayaa neighborhood, gunmen attacked a supermarket, killing the two brothers who own it, a police officer and a medical official said.

Two shoppers were wounded, they said.All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information to journalists.