BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say at least 25 people have been killed and scores wounded by a vegetable truck that exploded in a market in a Shiite city south of Baghdad.
Qadisiyah provincial council chairman Jubair al- Jabouri says the blast came around 10 a.m. today in a vegetable and fish market in the city of Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad.
He said 40 were wounded in the explosion and blamed Sunni insurgents linked to al- Qaida.
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