15 killed in Iraq bomb blasts

Updated: 13:11, Monday, 22 June 2009

At least 15 people have been killed in a series of bombings across Iraq.

1 of 1Baghdad - 11 dead in attacks in capital
Baghdad - 11 dead in attacks in capital

Three people were killed and 30 wounded in a roadside bomb in a market in north Baghdad's Shaab district.

In central Baghdad, a bomb in a parked car killed five people in Karrada.

Another roadside bomb hit a minibus carrying secondary school students in Sadr City in the east of the capital, killing three and wounding 12.

Outside Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated his device outside the Falluja municipal council building in western Iraq, killing one person and wounding five.

The Iraqi army said a roadside bomb also killed three soldiers near the northern town of Khanaqin, which is disputed by Arabs and Kurds.

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