String of car bombs kill 43

AT least 43 people were killed and another 89 injured yesterday in three car bomb attacks near a bus station and hospital in Baghdad.

They were the deadliest attacks in Iraq's capital in weeks. Survivors searched through charred buses and cars for signs of friends and relatives.

A suicide car bomber targeting policemen detonated his vehicle outside the Nahda bus station in central Baghdad, one of the city's major transit points, the US military said.