16 Killed by Bomb in Baghdad

[Coventina]

Source: New York Times

BAGHDAD — A bomb in a parked car exploded Thursday in a market in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 16 people and wounding 40, many of them women and children, the police said. Doctors at the hospital treating many of the wounded, some with severe burns, said the toll was likely to rise.

It was the second major attack in the Baghdad area this week. A bombing in Abu Ghraib on Monday left at least nine dead.

The attack at the Zahara market in Shaab occurred around 1 p.m., when most shoppers and vendors had gone home for lunch.

Though Shaab became a mostly Shiite neighborhood when the insurgency was flaring, many Sunni families who fled have returned, residents said. They were largely unable to explain the motives behind this attack.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html?ref=middleeast

[Arctic Dave]

1. Is this another bombing or am I getting my days wrong?