Bizar was bombed in Irak with over 140 injured and a bombing in Kurdish Kirkuk.
Suicide truck bomb kills scores in Baghdad market
POSTED: 10:20 a.m. EST, February 3, 2007
Story Highlights
• Eighty people were killed and 150 more wounded in crowded market
• Second car bombing of the day in Baghdad on Saturday
• In addition to 80 killed in market, 8 killed in bombs, attacks around Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Eighty people were killed and 150 more wounded after a suicide truck driver detonated his cargo in a crowded market in Baghdad on Saturday, police said.
The blast, which destroyed stores and automobiles, erupted in Sedriya, a mixed neighborhood of Sunni Arabs, Shiites and Kurds.
In another car bombing in a Baghdad neighborhood, one person was killed and six others were wounded when a bomb went in a commercial district, a Baghdad police official said.
Back in Baghdad, a passenger was killed and four others were wounded when their minibus struck a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad's Beirut Square, the Baghdad police said. The minibus was headed to Sadr City.
In the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, nine blasts within two hours left at least two people dead and 20 wounded, a Kirkuk deputy police chief said.
Seven of the blasts came from car bombs, while the others were roadside explosives. One of the car bombs detonated at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
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