At least 28 people were killed—including women and schoolgirls—and dozens wounded in a triple bombing in a Baghdad market on Nov. 10, the deadliest attack to rock the Iraqi capital in months. The attackers first detonated a car bomb, blowing up a bus full of schoolgirls; minutes later a suicide bomber ran into the resulting crowd and blew himself up. A third explosion around 30 yards from the first two tore through the market moments later.
AFP [2] identifies the scene of the attack as "Sunni district of Adhamiyah." The Guardian [3] and The Scotsman [4] call it "the mostly Shiite Kasrah section of the Azamiyah district." The New York Times [5] has it as "a mixed Sunni and Shiite neighborhood in the Adhamiya district."
In a separate attack in Baquba, the capital of northern Diyala province, a 13-year-old girl in a suicide bomb vest blew herself up at a US checkpoint, killing five Iraqi guards and wounding 18. (London Times [6], Nov. 11; The Guardian [3], Nov. 10)
See our last post on sectarian terror in Iraq [7].
