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| Twin bombs in Baghdad kill 72, injure more than 100 | | | Baghdad, Jan 22
Two bombs exploded seconds apart in a predominantly Shiite commercial area in central Baghdad today, killing at least 72 people and wounding at least 134, said Deputy Health Minister Hakim al-Zamili.
The first blast occurred shortly after noon when a bomb left in a bag placed among the stalls of vendors selling DVDs and second hand clothes exploded in the Bab al-Sharqi area between Tayaran and Tahrir squares. It was followed almost immediately by a parked car bomb just meters away.
Police and hospital officials said at least 72 people were killed and 134 wounded.
The wounded were taken to nearby al-Kindi Hospital where emergency personnel worked feverishly over the bloodied and badly wounded survivors.
A suicide bomber killed at least 63 people in the same region last month.
The explosions came hours after gunmen killed a female teacher as she was on her way to work at a girls' school in the mainly Sunni area of Khadra in western Baghdad, police said, adding that the teacher's driver was wounded in the drive-by shooting.
Later, two mortar shells slammed into a primary school in Dora, the dangerous south Baghdad neighborhood, killing a woman who was waiting to take her child home. |
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