According to Iraqi security officials, a car bomb exploded in a street market in the Iraqi town of Khalis on Thursday, killing 10 people and wounding 25.
Major Ali al-Temimi of the Khalis police said, “according to the witnesses, there was a parked civilian car bomb in the street market and it blew up and led to the deaths of 10 people.”
Meanwhile, A local hospital official says 22 persons were wounded in the blast.
The blast underscored Iraq’s fragile security as the remaining 13,000 US troops pull out in the next few weeks, nearly nine years after the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
Authorities immediately imposed a curfew in Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad soon after the explosion.
Khalis, a Shiite enclave north of Baghdad, is surrounded by the largely Sunni province of Diyala. The province is a former stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq.
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