Ten die in Baghdad car blast

Ten people have been killed in a car bombing in a shopping area in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad this afternoon.

Ten people have been killed in a car bombing in a shopping area in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad this afternoon.

At least 11 others are said to have been injured in the blast. The explosion was in Jadida a mostly Shia district in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, police said.

Elsewhere in the capital, a suicide bomber killed at least two people and injured about 20 other passengers on a mini-bus.

Agencies

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