BAQUBA: A US assault on an alleged Al Qaeda safehouse north of Baghdad killed four suspects and four female civilians on Wednesday, as a spike in violence during Ramazan killed at least 18 more. In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded in a popular market in Bayaa neighborhood, killing five people, while more than 55 corpses turned up in various parts of the city, said security officials. The attack that killed insurgents and civilians was launched in the early hours of the morning in Baquba, said the US military in a statement. "Coalition forces killed four suspected terrorists and wounded two others during a raid targeting a terrorist tied to extremist leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq in ... Diyala and Salaheddin provinces," it said. "They also found four women killed and another wounded in the objective building as a result of the air strike," Caldwell said.