Car bomb in Baghdad kills 10, wounds 25

Baghdad, Dec 13: A car bomb exploded in a busy thoroughfare of eastern Baghdad today, killing 10 people and wounding 25, an Interior Ministry source and police said.

The ministry official said the bomb exploded near a mosque in the Shi'ite Kamaliya area but this did not appear to have been the target.

The area is normally crowded in the early morning with poor Shi'ite day labourers looking for jobs and is a pickup point for commuters wanting to travel to other parts of Baghdad.

It is next to Sadr City, a sprawling Shi'ite slum where more than 200 people were killed last month in a multiple car bombing that was the worst attack since the U S invasion in 2003.

Yesterday, 60 people were killed and hundreds wounded when a suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle among a crowd of Shi'ite day labourers in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called the bombing a ''horrible massacre'' and blamed it on Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein sympathisers.

REUTERS

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