Car bomb kills five Iraqis in city south of Baghdad

A car bomb exploded in a bustling vegetable market in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla today, killing at least five people and wounding 10, police said.

Police Capt. Muthana Khalid Ali said the vehicle was parked when it exploded at about 9.30am local time in Hilla, a Shiite-majority city about 60 miles south of Baghdad.