A car bomb ripped through a market in a Shiite neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad at sunset Saturday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 38, police said. Near Abu Ghraib prison, a suicide car bomb destroyed three vehicles in an American convoy Saturday, and gunmen fired seven mortar shells at the jail just west of Baghdad and used grenades to damage three armored vehicles in another U.S. convoy in the area, police said, according to The AP.
Interior Ministry police Maj. Falah al-Mhamadawi conveyed an explosives-packed car was parked in front of fruit and vegetable stands in the market at Nahrawan, about 20 miles east of Baghdad, a poor district heavily populated by Shiites. He estimated at least 30 people were killed and 38 injured.
Also in Baghdad, police found the handcuffed corpses of three unidentified men dumped near the Omar Bin Abdul-Aziz mosque. Armed men in western Baghdad attacked a convoy of four trucks carrying food for the U.S. military. Two Sudanese drivers were killed, police and hospital sources said.
In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, one man died and six injured when a suicide bomber drove his car into an Iraqi army patrol.
Elsewhere, police in Samarra, north of Baghdad, said they found the body of an Iraqi contractor who worked for the U.S. military.
In Qaem, near the Syrian border, U.S. jets reportedly bombed two houses overnight, killing one civilian and injuring another.
