Car Bomb in Baghdad Kills 10, Brother of Vice President Assassinated
09 October 2006
A car bomb at a busy market in the Iraqi capital has killed at least 10 people, and the brother of the country's Sunni Arab vice president was assassinated inside his Baghdad home.
Iraqi officials say the car bomb attack on the market in Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood late Monday also wounded at least 23 others.
Earlier in the day, unidentified gunmen broke into the home of Amir al-Hashimi, the brother of Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, killing him. He is the third sibling of the vice president to be slain this year.
Meanwhile, a Kurdish woman has testified at the genocide trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, which resumed Monday after a two-week break. The woman said Saddam's forces destroyed her village and buried her family alive in the late 1980s.
Another witness, a Kurdish farmer, said Iraqi forces destroyed his village in 1988, and his mother, pregnant wife and other family members disappeared.
Saddam and six co-defendants were all present in the courtroom, but defense lawyers continued a boycott of the hearings.
In other violence, a suicide car bombing today at a police checkpoint in the northern town of Tal Afar killed one policeman and wounded 11 other people.
Meanwhile, officials are investigating what caused the food poisoning that sickened hundreds of Iraqi police officers at the base in Numaniya southeast of Baghdad. It is unclear if the poisoning was intentional or an accident.
Some information for this report was provided by AP.
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