Compromise sought after Baghdad bombs kill 43

Iraqi politicians tried to reach compromises with Sunni Arab leaders today in the country’s draft constitution, one day after synchronised bombings at a bus station and nearby hospital killed up to 43 people in the capital Baghdad.

Government officials today said the bombings – two believed to have been suicide attacks and the third a stationary car bomb – were an attempt to target Shiites and stoke civil war between religious groups in the country.