Car bomb kills five in Baghdad

Fourteen others were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a vegetable market in southwest Baghdad.

A car bomb exploded near a vegetable market in southwest Baghdad on Monday afternoon, killing five people and wounding at least 14, police said.

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The blast occurred at a green grocers' wholesale depot around 1:15 p.m. (1015 GMT) in Sadiyah, a primarily Sunni area of the Iraqi capital, officials said.