Iraq

At Least 20 Killed in Iraq Bomb Blasts


A series of car bombs and a roadside explosion killed at least 20 people across Iraq.

In Baghdad, a car bomb targeting an army general’s convoy blew up near the Palestine hotel in an area frequented by foreigners, killing a guard in the convoy. General Qassim Nouri, in charge of security at the Baghdad municipality, was unhurt, according to police sources, Aljazeera reported.

The explosion was in Firdos Square, famed for scenes of the toppling of the huge statue of Saddam Hussein shortly after the 2003 US-led invasion.

The deadliest blasts occurred in Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed oil-rich governorate in Northern Iraq that is frequently targeted by militants seeking to sow communal violence, where at least nine people were killed and 39 wounded.

South of Baghdad, in the village of Methatiya, near Hilla, a car bomb exploded in a marketplace, killing at least ten and injuring nine.

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