BAGHDAD, Iraq - 40 people have died in
car bombings
in the last 12-hours. 15 were killed in a shopping district. On Wednesday four car bombs
killed 23 people were killed in western Baghdad's
Shula
neighborhood.
Most residents of
Karradah
and Shula
are from Iraq's Shiite majority, while the insurgents are almost exclusively
Sunni Arabs, a minority that had dominated Iraq until Saddam Hussein's ouster
two years ago. Separately, a car bomb detonated by remote control hit an Iraqi
police patrol in Tuz
Khormato,
north of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding seven civilians, police
Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadr said. Tuz Khormato is 55 miles (88 Kilometers)
south of the northern city of Kirkuk.