Suicide bomber kills 125 in Iraq

An injured Iraqi being carried away on a wooden cart after the blast near Baghdad on Monday. A suicide car bomber killed 125 people and wounded 130 near a crowded marketplace south of Baghdad on Monday in the single bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The bomber drove a car into a crowd of people queuing outside a government building in the town of Hilla, 100 km south of the capital. Many of those killed were shopping at stalls across the road.

‘‘We’ve called on people to donate blood and have opened a centre for that,’’ he said. ‘‘We’ve called on doctors from Kerbala, Diwaniyah and Najaf to come and help and they have started arriving.’’ Reuters