A car bomb killed 30 people and wounded 38 in a town east of Baghdad yesterday at the end of one of the bloodiest weeks in and around the Iraqi capital since the US-led invasion of 2003. A police spokesman said the explosion in Nahrwan, some 45 km from Baghdad, also wounded 38 people. "It was not a suicide bomb," he said. "A car parked in the middle of the square and later it blew up." More than 200 people have been killed in bombings and shootings in and near Baghdad this week, including at least 114 in a single suicide bomb on Wednesday that targeted a crowd of day laborers waiting to be hired in a Shiite district.