Bombers kill at least 16 in Baghdad

A car bomb exploded near an entrance to Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone that is home to the US embassy and Iraqi government buildings today, killing at least 15 people and wounding 81.

Less than an hour later, a second car bomb ripped through the Iraqi capital’s Saadoun Street about 50 yards from the Baghdad Hotel causing an unspecified number of casualties. Body parts were strewn in the street.