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1st LD: At least 10 killed in car bomb attack in southern Iraq

Xinhua, October 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least ten people were killed and 25 wounded on Monday in a car bomb attack at a marketplace at a town in Iraq's southern province of Basra, a provincial security source told Xinhua.

An explosive-laden car parking at Hallaqeen street in a popular market in the town of Zubair in west of the oil-hub city of Basra, which located some 550 km south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The toll could rise as ambulances, police and civilian vehicles were evacuating the victims to the nearby hospitals and medical centers, the source said, adding that several civilian cars and at least 11 shops were destroyed or set ablaze while many stalls were disappeared or destroyed by the huge blast at the scene.

Iraq has been witnessing some of the worst violence in years. Terrorism and violence have left at least 12,282 civilians dead and 23,126 others injured in 2014, making it the deadliest year since the flareup of sectarian violence in 2006-2007, according to a recent United Nations report. Enditem