Iraq hammered by plague of suicide bombings

NEW suicide bombings killed at least 22 people in the Baghdad area yesterday, while relatives struggled to identify charred bodies from a fiery suicide attack near a Shi’ite mosque in Musayyib that killed more than 90 people.

The government raised the death toll from Saturday’s attack in the town south of the Iraqi capital to “more than 90”, making it the second deadliest single terrorist bombing since the overthrow of Saddam

Hussein in April 2003. More than 150 people were wounded.