8 killed in Iraq bombings
A spate of bombings across Iraq, including two suicide attacks and a bicycle bomb, killed eight people and wounded more than 50 others on Sunday, police said.
In the deadliest attack, five people were killed and 37 wounded when a bomb hidden in a cooler on the back of a bicycle ripped through a market in the Shia city of Mussayib in Babil province at around 9:30 am (0630 GMT).
The two-wheeler had been parked at the market in Mussayib, 60km south of Baghdad, police said.
The western Iraqi city of Ramadi, capital of the predominantly Sunni province of Al-Anbar, a former rebel stronghold, was hit by two suicide bombings, police said.
One of the attackers detonated a car bomb at the city's western entrance, killing two people and wounding four others, according to police Colonel Jabbar Ajaj.
Ajaj added that another suicide attacker blew himself up near a police station outside Ramadi, 100km from Baghdad, but killed only himself. No one was wounded.
In the Shia holy city of Karbala, 110km south of the capital, a magnetic bomb affixed to a bus detonated as the vehicle was approaching a security checkpoint, killing a woman.
The "sticky bomb" attack also wounded 12 people, including five women, medical and security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The attacks come a week after twin suicide bombings in central Baghdad killed 153 people and wounded 500, the deadliest day of violence in Iraq in more than two years.
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