Baghdad, (DPA) At least 58 people have been killed and 89 wounded in separate bomb attacks in Iraq Tuesday.
In the first incident, at least 18 people were killed and 29 injured in two suicide bombings in the town of Baiji in Salahuddin province, a police source said.
The second incident took place in central Baghdad where a bomb exploded in a minibus parked near the Khalani Square in the central Baghdad’s area of Sank.
The area with many shops and a big Shiite mosque was filled with people when the bomb exploded.
Security forces said at least 40 persons were killed and over 60 injured in the bombing strike carried out with an explosives-packed minibus parked in the Khalani Square.
Troopers from the security forces cordoned off the square and the injured people were rushed to local hospitals.
The first blast in Baiji targeted the house of the town’s police chief, General Saad al-Nufus, at about 6.00 a.m. But when the suicide bomber failed to reach the heavily fortified house of the police chief, he hit at a nearby house, the police said.
The second suicide truck bombing targeted the house of Shiekh Hamad al-Jubouri, head of Baiji’s Awakening Council, totally destroying his house, the source said.