Off the wire
• Pakistani PM to visit Saudi Arabia for talks on Yemen conflict  • Roundup: S. African President Zuma urges more efforts to halt xenophobia  • Mogherini: EU, Cuba to hold political dialogue meeting in June  • Urgent: U.S. stocks rally on upbeat data  • 1st LD Writethru: U.S. dollar drops despite upbeat data  • Slovak gov't approves 3 candidates for European Court of Human Rights  • French, Guinean presidents discuss on Ebola, regional affairs  • Trial on gang rape case in Finland to begin in early May  • Madagascar's president calls for cooperation from participants of Afro-Asian Summit  • Slovakia against mandatory migrants resettlement  
You are here: 　 Home

10 killed in two bomb attacks in Iraq

Xinhua, April 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 10 people were killed and 35 others wounded in two bomb attacks in central Iraq on Wednesday, a police source said.

A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up near a bus stop in southern Samarra, 120 km north of Baghdad, leaving at least eight people killed and 17 others wounded, "all the victims are Shiite pilgrims forward to the shrine of Imam Ali al-Hadi," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Earlier, the source told Xinhua that a booby-trapped car detonated near a restaurant in Talbiyah district in eastern Baghdad, leaving two people killed and 18 wounded.

Iraq has been witnessing some of the worst violence in years. Terrorism and violence have killed 5,576 civilians in Iraq this year, with 11,666 more wounded, according to a recent UN report. Endit