28 Killed in Bomb Attacks in Iraqi Capital
By VOA News
10 November 2008
Iraqi police say a car bomb ripped through a crowd of civilians in Baghdad today, then a suicide bomber blew himself up as police and others rushed to help the wounded.
Officials say the double bomb attack killed at least 28 people and wounded nearly 70 others. It was the deadliest in the Iraqi capital in months.
No one has claimed responsibility. But attacks against civilians have been on the rise as al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents are pushed out of their strongholds.
The attacks on a busy street in the Adhamiya district lined with shops and restaurants also damaged a bus carrying girls to school.
Also today, Iraqi police say a female suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint in the Diyala province capital, Baquba, killing four people and wounding 14 others.
Militants have increasingly recruited female bombers because they often can more easily elude detection.
Officials say the women, some of them teenagers, are vulnerable to recruitment, with insurgents playing on a sense of revenge for the death of the women's relatives. The Reuters news agency quotes police saying today's bomber was 13 years old.
On Sunday, two bomb attacks in Iraq killed at least seven people and wounded about 20 others.
In the deadliest of those attacks, a bomb exploded in a market in the eastern town of Khalis in Diyala province, killing four people. Officials say the bomb targeted the town's mayor.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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