25 killed, 40 wounded in Baghdad market blast
Iraqi authorities say at least 25 people have been killed and scores wounded by a vegetable truck that exploded in a market in in a Shiite city south of Baghdad.
Qadisiyah provincial council chairman Jubair al-Jabouri says the blast came around 10 a.m. in a vegetable and fish market in the city of Diwaniyah, 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of Baghdad.
He said 40 were wounded in the explosion and blamed insurgents linked to al-Qaida.
AP
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