Baghdad triple bombing kills 28: police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A pair of car bombs exploded in central Baghdad Monday and a suicide bomber blew himself up among police and civilians who rushed to help the wounded, in a triple strike that killed 28 people and wounded 68, police said.
The attack, one of the deadliest incidents in Iraq for months, took place in the Kasra neighborhood on the east bank of the Tigris River in a bustling area of tea shops and restaurants near a fine arts institute.
Male and female students, many of whom were having breakfast at the time of the strike, were among the dead and wounded, as were Iraqi soldiers and police who had rushed to the scene.
Militants no longer control whole swathes of Iraq's towns and villages, and overall violence has decreased dramatically over the past year. But bomb attacks on civilian and military targets still occur daily.
(Editing by Mark Trevelyan)