MOSUL, Iraq - Bombs and mortar attacks killed 43 people in Iraq on Monday,
including 28 civilians, of which 19 were children, when a truck
packed with explosives in a northern Shiite village.
In the capital a roadside bomb killed nine Iraqis, ripping through an
unofficial stop for one of the battered minibuses used by thousands of
people in the city, security and medical officials said.
Elsewhere, 60 bodies were found in a mainly Sunni area that had been
under the control of
al-Qaida in Iraq west of Baqouba, according to a Diyala provincial
police official. U.S. and Iraqi forces recently have touted successes in
an operation aimed at restoring control in the volatile region northeast
of Baghdad.
