Car bombs, suicide attack kill at least 22 in Iraq


  • World
  • Sunday, 26 Apr 2015

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 22 people were killed in explosions across Iraq on Sunday, including a suicide car bomb attack on a military post in western Anbar province, police and medical sources said.

The deadliest attack came when a car packed with explosives was detonated at an army checkpoint near the town of al-Nukhaib, an outpost on the route to western neighbours Syria and Saudi Arabia, killing at least seven soldiers, the sources said.

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