A car bomb in north Baghdad's Shaab district today killed 16 people and wounded 35 others, police said, the latest such attack to rock the Iraqi capital.
Women and children were among the casualties, they said.
Yesterday, US and Iraqi security officials lauded a sharp drop in violence in Iraq, but insurgents have shown themselves still capable of launching high-profile attacks.
On Monday, a bomb at a bus terminal in west Baghdad's Abu Grhaib district killed nine people and wounded 23, Iraqi police said.
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