BAGHDAD - Sixty-five people, including students and teachers, were killed Tuesday in the most devastating attack this year as a suicide bomber and a car bomb wreaked havoc outside a Baghdad university.The explosions from the twin blasts at the entrance of the renowned Mustansiriyah University in east Baghdad, founded in the 13th century, ripped through dozens of students, teachers and employees of the university as they were heading home at the end of the day, killing 65 and wounding 138. The dead and wounded were rushed to city hospitals in bed sheets, blankets, stretchers and a number of pick-up trucks.
The blasts left a number of nearby cars completely burnt and many bodies charred in parked vehicles, an AFP photographer at the site said. Burnt corpses lay on the street, their mobile telephones ringing unanswered, the photographer said.