A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 20 in the Shia Kadhimiya district of north-west Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, a day after seven car bombs killed 37 people across the Iraqi capital. The latest attack struck an area where one of Shia Islams holiest shrines is located.
Targeting Shia areas such as Kadhimiya to stoke sectarian tension has been a favourite tactic of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, although no one claimed responsibility for the bombing. Eyewitnesses told Reuters Television that the mother of a 7-month-old baby died in the blast and the father was critically wounded when the explosion struck the front of their car.
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