Baghdad bombings claim 16 lives

AT LEAST 27 Iraqis were killed yesterday, including 16 in a pair of Baghdad car bombings, while the US military said five of its troops lost their lives in attacks.

Sixteen died and 90 were wounded in two car bombings in Baghdad’s Al-Amin neighbourhood - one near a petrol station and the other in a market - an interior ministry official said.

“Most of the casualties were from the blast in the market,” the official said. The other car bomb blew up a parked petrol tanker.