10 killed, 30 hurt in Iraq bombings
March 3rd, 2010 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANSBaghdad, March 3 (IANS) Ten people were killed and 30 injured Wednesday in two car bomb attacks followed by a suicide bombing in Baquba, the capital of Iraq’s Diyala province, a police official said.
“The latest toll rose to a total of 10 killed and 30 injured by the three blasts in Baquba,” the police source told Xinhua.
The attacks occurred at about 9.30 a.m. when two cars parked near two government offices in central Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, detonated almost simultaneously.
A third attack took place when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive vest among a crowd of people gathering outside the main hospital of Baquba to receive the victims of the two car bombings, the source added.
Ali al-Timimi, head of Diyala health department, was among those killed in the suicide blast.
Timimi was supervising the dozens of victims at the entrance of the hospital when the suicide bomber struck.
Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border east of the country, has long been a stronghold for Al Qaeda militants and other insurgent groups.
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