Iraq hit by triple bombing ahead of elections

Published: 1:05PM GMT 03 March 2010

At slightest 10 military were between the dead, a security central pronounced Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Two near-simultaneous self-murder car bombs ripped by the provincial housing department"s offices and a circuitously trade intersection at around 9.30 am.

A bomber ready to go in military unvaried afterwards rode with bleeding victims in an ambulance to the sanatorium where he blew himself up, according to Major Ghaleb al-Juburi, a orator for Baquba police.

The bombings, the deadliest to strike the nation in scarcely a month, bleeding 55 people and spurred security forces to clamp an evident curfew on the city, that lies 40 miles north of Baghdad.

At slightest 10 military were between the dead, a security central said.

The attacks came notwithstanding heightened security opposite the nation forward of Sunday"s vote. Earlier, the personality of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, in jeopardy to interrupt the choosing by "military means".

"The self-murder bomber attempted to blow himself up opposite the military arch when he came to see the bleeding in the hospital," a security official, vocalization on condition of anonymity, said.