Car bombs kill 11 across Baghdad

A car bomb and a suicide attacker killed at least 11 people across Baghdad on Tuesday.

A car bomb and a suicide attacker killed at least 11 people across Baghdad on Tuesday. The attacks came during the morning rush. A car rigged with explosives tore through a line of cars at a gas station in the Sadiyah district in southwestern Baghdad. At least six people were killed and 14 injured, police said.

Later, a suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden car into a vegetable market near a Shi’ite enclave in southern Baghdad. At least five people were killed and seven injured, police said.

Outside Baghdad, nearly 150 people were hospitalised complaining of breathing problems, vomiting and other ailments after a truck carrying a chlorine-based substance was hit by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, said a military spokesman.

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Two people died in the blast and the others were treated after being exposed to fumes and debris near Taji, about 12 miles northwest of Baghdad, Moussawi said. All those treated were in stable condition.

On Monday, insurgents staged a bold daylight assault against a US combat post north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and injuring 17. The US military called it a “coordinated attack— which began with a suicide car bombing and then gunfire on soldiers pinned down in a former Iraqi police station.

The head-on attack in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, was notable for both its tactics and target. Sunni insurgents have mostly used hit-and-run ambushes, roadside bombs or mortars on US troops and stayed away from direct assaults on fortified military compounds to avoid US firepower.

–BUSHRA JUHI