22 dead in Baghdad suicide bomb attack

A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in an outdoor market today, killing at least 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a village of Shiite ethnic Turkomen north of Baghdad, police said.

Hours earlier, a suicide car bomber struck outside a café on Friday night in a tiny Shiite Kurdish village near the Iranian border north-east of the capital, killing 26 people and wounding at least 33, police said.