Car bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City kills 7, wounds 45

BAGHDAD, Nov 2 (Reuters) A car bomb killed seven people and wounded 45 when it ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district today, an interior ministry source said.

The car bomb, detonated by remote control, was aimed at shoppers in the Shi'ite slum's Mureydi market. Police said the casualty toll could rise.

The densely populated area is often targeted by Sunni militants.

The prime minister ordered the U S and Iraqi military to lift a blockade of the impoverished district on Tuesday that was imposed after a U S soldier of Iraqi descent was suspected to have been kidnapped by a powerful militia controlling much of the slum.

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