Car bombs kill dozens in Baghdad

BBC

At least 67 people have been killed and almost 100 have been wounded in two separate bombings in Baghdad, Iraqi police have said.

In one attack, a fuel tanker exploded near a petrol station in the mainly Sunni suburb of Mansour, killing 50.

Earlier, at least 17 people were killed and 32 injured in a blast in the mainly Shia shopping district of Karrada.

Also in Baghdad, the US military said three of its soldiers had been killed and six wounded by a roadside bomb.

The Karrada bomb was placed in a parked vehicle and went off in an area with many electronics stores and a popular ice-cream parlour, reports say.

A car bomb in the same area killed 25 people last week.

Karrada has been hit by a string of bombs in the past 10 days. On Monday of last week, four separate car bombs killed 16 people.

US and Iraqi forces have tightened security in Baghdad since earlier in the year in an attempt to stem such bombings......