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52 Dead in Baghdad Blast

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 24, 2009 1:38 PM CDT

(Newser) – An explosion ripped through a market in Baghdad’s Sadr City today killing 52 and injuring 104, Reuters reports. Though Iraq has seen markedly less violence in the past year, today’s bombing is part of a wave of attacks ahead of the US military’...   Read full story »

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