34 people killed in separate Iraq bombings

The death toll from a car bomb in northern Baghdad this evening has risen to at least 22 people, police sources said.

The death toll from a car bomb in northern Baghdad this evening has risen to at least 22 people, police sources said.

They said at least 58 people were wounded in the blast in a vegetable market in the Husaniya district of the capital.

Earlier today a suicide bomber in a car killed at least 12 people in the Iraqi town of Hilla, police sources said.

They said 36 people were wounded in the attack near a car dealership in Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad.

The mainly Shia town has suffered some of the biggest bombings in the Sunni guerrilla campaign to topple the Shia-led government.

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