A roadside bomb apparently targeting casual labourers in Baghdad's crowded Sadr City slum killed at least two people and wounded 30 today, police said.
hey said the death toll was likely to rise.
US troops pulled out of Iraqi cities and towns on July 30th, vacating a number of urban posts, including Sadr City, which lies in the capital's east. Officials say they expect militants to step up attacks to test Iraqi security forces and ahead of national elections scheduled for January.
Violence as fallen sharply across Iraq, but militant groups are still capable of carrying out frequent bomb attacks.
Elsewhere, a roadside bomb targeting the convoy of water resources minister Abdul Latif Rasheed wounded six people including three traffic police today. The bomb did not hurt anyone in the minister's convoy.
Reuters