Suicide bombers kill 60 in three attacks

AT least 60 people were massacred when three suicide attackers detonated car bombs almost simultaneously in a mainly Shi’ite town north of Baghdad last night.

Seventy other people were wounded, a hospital official said in Balad, 50 miles from the Iraqi capital. In another attack, five US soldiers were killed in a blast in a western Iraqi town, the military announced.

The car bombers struck just before sunset at around 6.45pm local time, hitting a bank, a vegetable market and another location in the town centre, witnesses said.