BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb exploded at a market in a mostly Shi'ite part of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 14 people in escalating violence that has claimed more than 400 lives since a new government was named two weeks ago.
In a scene that has become all too familiar in the streets of Iraq, frantic young men, some crying, pushed wooden carts carrying charred bodies of women and men.
Sirens wailed as flames and black smoke rose skywards over mangled market stalls and cars in the New Baghdad district.
The blast followed a series of suicide bomb attacks on Wednesday that killed at least 71 people.
The US military put the death toll at 14. Iraqi police and the US military said 56 people were also wounded.
Three US soldiers were also killed on Thursday in bomb attacks in Baghdad and to the north and south of the capital.
Iraq has witnessed a dramatic rise in bloodshed since its first democratically elected government was formed on April 28, raising fears of civil war if the country's new leaders do not deliver on promises of stability soon.
- REUTERS
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