14/10/2011 12:19
Bomb blasts kill at least 16 people in Baghdad
Two bomb blasts killed at least 16 people in a mainly Shi'ite Baghdad district on Thursday in the latest in a series of large attacks to hit Iraq's capital in less than a week, the Reuters reports.
Bombings across Baghdad since Monday are highlighting security risks in Iraq as U.S. troops prepare to leave by a year-end deadline more than eight years after the U.S. invasion.
In Thursday's attacks, a roadside bomb exploded near a coffee shop in the mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City followed by a car bomb nearby, witnesses and police said.