34 people killed in separate Iraq bombings

The death toll from a car bomb in northern Baghdad this evening has risen to at least 22 people, police sources said.

The death toll from a car bomb in northern Baghdad this evening has risen to at least 22 people, police sources said.

They said at least 58 people were wounded in the blast in a vegetable market in the Husaniya district of the capital.

Earlier today a suicide bomber in a car killed at least 12 people in the Iraqi town of Hilla, police sources said.

They said 36 people were wounded in the attack near a car dealership in Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad.

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The mainly Shia town has suffered some of the biggest bombings in the Sunni guerrilla campaign to topple the Shia-led government.