By IRNA,
Baghdad : Bombings took the lives of at least 21 Iraqis on Tuesday, including 3 children and 6 adults when an explosive on a horse-drawn cart went off in an attack on a primary school in Mosul.
While bombings often kill civilians as they go about their daily lives, few attacks have been aimed at places specifically frequented by children.
In this case, the blast took place as pupils were leaving school for the day. Eighteen of the 22 injured were children.
A day earlier, a suicide bomb killed 16 people in Mosul. The city remains in the grip of an entrenched insurgency.
The other bombings on Tuesday were in Tal Afar, a troubled city west of Mosul, where at least 5 were killed and 30 wounded and in Iskandariya, about 25 miles south of Baghdad, where five Iraqi soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device went off beneath their vehicle.
In Jurf al-Sakher, a town south of Baghdad in Babil Province, a bomb placed in a car killed the driver as he was returning to the car.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi High Tribunal, which tries crimes committed by the government of Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for a second time Saddam’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali, for his part in crushing the 1991 uprising in southern Iraq.