BAGHDAD - A string of bombs that killed at least 31 people in Baghdad on Thursday underlined warnings by US and Iraqi officials that violence will not cease with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.
In the deadliest blast, a roadside bomb in a
crowded market in eastern New Baghdad district killed 13 people and wounded 28, police said.
One car bomb exploded in the northwestern Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya, killing seven people and wounding 17 others, while a second car bomb in the east of the capital killed six people and wounded 13 others, police said.
A third car bomb killed five people and wounded 10 in the mostly Shi'ite district of Shaab, east of the Tigris.
Zarqawi, who had been blamed for some of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq, was killed during a US air strike in a village north of Baghdad on Wednesday in one of the most significant developments since the US-led invasion.
US officials, including US President George W Bush, hailed the killing of Jordanian-born Zarqawi but have warned that his al Qaeda group still posed a threat.
- REUTERS
