Twin car bombs exploded Sunday near a major square in Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens in the latest attack targeting a high-profile area in the capital.
The explosives-packed cars were parked a few hundred yards (meters) apart near a government agency that issues national identification cards, the telephone exchange building and a state-run bank.
The nearly simultaneous blasts occurred shortly after 11 a.m. as the area was crowded with people at the start of the work week.
Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the main Iraqi military spokesman for Baghdad, said at least 18 people were killed and 42 wounded.
... and in Afghanistan
Two bombs set up in push carts exploded minutes apart Sunday in a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan, just two in a series of violent attacks across the country.
A young girl and a woman were killed and at least 14 other people were wounded in the first blast in front of a bank in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, the Afghan Ministry of Interior said.
"I was going to get my salary from Kabul bank and there was a blast," Afghan policeman Abdul Tawab said at the scene.
He was among Afghan security forces who were already at the first bombing site when they heard the second blast, which occurred in front of a high school about 3 kilometers away.
Five people, including an Afghan soldier, were injured in the second explosion less than a half-hour after the first, according to Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor in Helmand province.
By: Brant
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