19 killed in double Baghdad market bombing

At least 18 people were killed and 50 injured when two car bombs exploded five minutes apart in a busy Baghdad market today, police said.

The blasts in the south-west of the Iraqi capital came a day after a bomb killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 150 near a bus station and market close to one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in Karbala.