Suicide bomber kills 28 in Baghdad market
BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed 28 people and wounded another 28 on Tuesday during a tour by tribal leaders and security officials of a market in western Baghdad, a security official said.
Major-General Qassim Moussawi, a security spokesman in Baghdad, said the attack took place when a group of dignitaries, including army officers, toured a crowded market in Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad.
A police source said 25 people had been killed and 20 wounded, but that the attack took place as the dignitaries were leaving a tribal gathering at the Abu Ghraib municipal headquarters.
Journalists, police and soldiers were among those killed, the source said.
A source at Yarmouk hospital, the main hospital in western Baghdad, said it had received the body of a journalist working for al-Baghdadiya, an independent television station.
Another journalist with al-Iraqiya state television was wounded, he said.
While violence has dropped sharply in Iraq since the height of the sectarian and insurgent bloodshed unleashed by the US-led invasion in 2003, insurgents continue to stage regular attacks, especially in the volatile northern city of Mosul.
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