[ADN Kronos] At least 10 people were killed and another 35 others were wounded in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday. Officials said the bomb explosion targeted a vegetable market in the Sunni district of Dora, in the south of the city.Some media reports suggested the bombing was a suicide attack carried out by a person driving a truck. The area of the city was at the centre of sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia in the wake of the US-led invasion of 2003.
There has been a surge in deadly bomb attacks in Baghdad in recent weeks. A total of 355 Iraqis were killed in April making it the bloodiest month this year. But the casualties are nowhere near levels reached in 2006 and 2007 when the insurgency and sectarian strife were at their peak.
The increased violence comes just weeks before a 30 June deadline for US troops to withdraw from all Iraqi urban areas, ahead of a complete withdrawal by the end of 2011.