Sunni insurgents in Iraq hit two Shiite towns in two days with brutal bombings that killed more than 110 people, apparently aiming to scare Shiites away from a crucial vote on Iraq’s new constitution.

SUNNI-LED insurgents killed at least 10 people with a car bomb in a crowded vegetable market yesterday as Iraqi security forces said they had captured a woman wearing explosives hidden under her clothes.

Sunni-led insurgents killed at least nine people, including women and children, with a car bomb in a crowded vegetable market in the town of Hillah today, in the second blast against Shiites in as many days, police said.