114 die as bomber blows up with his van

A SUICIDE bomber lured a crowd of Shi’ite Muslim day labourers to his minivan and blew it up in Baghdad yesterday, killing 114 people in the bloodiest of a wave of attacks which killed more than 150 across the capital.

It was the second deadliest single attack since the US-led invasion of March 2003.

“There’s no political party here, there are no police,” Mohammed Jabbar railed at the blast site in the Shi’ite Kadhimiya area.