BAGHDAD: Three people, including a child, were killed and 18 wounded by a car bomb in Qara Teba in Iraq’s Diyala province on Tuesday, security officials said.
The bomb exploded in the centre of the town’s market at about 1:00 pm (1000 GMT). The town, populated predominantly by Turkoman-Shias, is northeast of the capital.
In another attack, six Iranians and two Iraqis were wounded by a car bomb targeting a bus in Jadidat Al-Shat to the west of Baquba, security officials in Baquba said.
US and Iraqi officials have warned of the dangers of an upsurge of violence if negotiations on forming a new governing coalition continue to drag on, giving insurgent groups an opportunity to further destabilize the country.
More than four months after a March 7 general election, which gave no single bloc an overall parliamentary majority, the two lists which won most seats are still bickering over who should be the next prime minister.
