Iraq Attacks Kill 28
Attacks including a bombing against a bridal party killed 28 people and wounded dozens in Iraq on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.
The violence is the latest in a wave of unrest that has killed more than 570 people so far in May and raised fears of a return to all-out sectarian conflict.
In the deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded in south Baghdad as people cheered a bride ahead of her wedding, killing 16 people and wounding 42, officials said.
And two more bombs detonated in a commercial area of west Baghdad, killing at lest nine people and wounding at least 15.
In Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, gunmen shot dead an army brigadier general at his home, while two roadside bombs exploded near a football field in Baquba, north of the capital, killing one person and wounding nine.
Gunmen also killed an anti-Qaeda militia leader southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, and a roadside bomb north of the city of Tikrit targeted the governor of Salaheddin province's convoy, wounding four of his guards.
Source: Agence France Presse
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