| Sixteen people were killed and several others injured in various incidents of violence in Iraq on Tuesday. Six people were killed and at least 105 wounded or overcome by fumes when a chlorine gas tanker exploded in the town of Taji, north of Baghdad, security and defence sources said. The explosion occurred after a driver parked his truck in front of the Ahal Al-Bait restaurant, they said. A security source said his service had reports that four such trucks were to be driven to Baghdad from Ramadi in western Iraqi by foreign suicide bombers, and this truck might have been one of them. Separately, two car bombs killed 10 people in southern Baghdad, police said. The first car bomb exploded near a fuel station in the district of Saidiya, killing five people and wounding 11 more, police said. Another car bomb exploded in Doura, south of Baghdad, killing five people and wounding seven at a vegetable market. Security forces foiled another car bomb attack, blowing up a vehicle near a police checkpoint in Doura, police said. |