Baghdad, Iraq: Bombings in Baghdad and Karbala killed at least 56 people and wounded 78 more Saturday morning, police and medical officials said.
A car bomb blast in a crowded shopping area of central Karbala, a holy Shiite city about 70 miles southwest of Baghdad, killed at least 43 people and wounded 55, according to an official at Hussein Hospital in Karbala.
The explosion was near a bus station and just 200 yards from the Imam Hussein Holy shrine. Video of the scene broadcast on Iraqi television showed hundreds of people crowded around the bomb site as emergency workers placed victims in ambulances.
A short time later, a car bomb exploded on the Jadriya bridge, which spans the Tigris River in southern Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 others, Iraqi police said. It was not immediately clear how badly the bridge was damaged.
The Jadriya bridge attack came just two days after a suicide car bomb detonated on the Sarafiya bridge, which crosses the Tigris in northern Baghdad, also killing 10 people. Two large sections of the bridge collapsed into the river.
There are 11 major bridges spanning the Tigris River in Baghdad.
Baghdad police officials also reported the following attacks Saturday morning:
- The home of a Sunni member of Iraq's parliament was attacked by gunmen Saturday morning. Five guards were wounded in the half-hour battle at the western Baghdad residence of Adnan al-Dulaimi, the head of the the Sunni political party known as the General Conference of People of Iraq.
- Two Iraqi police officers and one civilian were killed by a roadside bomb blast that targeted a police patrol in Madaan, about 12 miles southeast of Baghdad Saturday morning. Four police officers and four civilians were also hurt by the blast.
- Two Iraqi police officers and one civilian were wounded by a roadside bomb explosion in western Baghdad's Yarmouk district.
- Two electricity workers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in southwestern Baghdad's Bayyaa neighborhood.
(With agencies inputs)
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