Car bomb blast kills eight in Baghdad

A CAR bomb exploded yesterday near the Ministry of Education in a busy Baghdad commercial area, killing at least eight people and wounding 29 others, officials said.

In the north, another car bomb killed at least four people in Mosul.

Meanwhile, kidnappers released two Iraqi guards who were abducted along with an American, a Nepalese, a Filipino and an Iraqi from the Baghdad compound of a Saudi company on Monday.