(RFE/RL)
February 3, 2007 -- At least 130 people were killed and 300 wounded in Iraq today when a suicide truck bomb slammed into a food market in central Baghdad.
It was the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital this year.
Reports say the attacker was driving a truck carrying food when he detonated his explosives, destroying stores and market stalls in the mostly Shi'ite Sadriyah neighborhood.
In the northern city of Kirkuk today, a series of car bombings killed at least two people and wounded more than 30 others. Authorities imposed a nighttime curfew on the city following the attacks.
Authorities also imposed curfews on two other cities, Mosul and Samarra, after outbreaks of violence there as well.
(compiled from agency reports)
RFE/RL Iraq Report
RFE/RL Iraq Report