Special report: Tension accelerates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, June 21 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb went off near a popular market in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City on Wednesday and at least two people were killed and four others wounded, an Interior Ministry source said.

    "Now police reports said that two people were killed and four others wounded," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    The blast occurred at about 12:30 p.m. (0830 GMT) in the crowded al-Hay market in the densely-populated Sadr City, the source said.

    Earlier in the day, an Interior Ministry source said that the police found the body of Khamis al-Ubaidi, the number two on former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's defense team.

    The Iraqi police said that Ubaidi's body was found in the Sabahal-Khaiyat Square in the vicinity of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday.

    Ubaidi had been kidnapped in Baghdad's Doura neighborhood days ago, but the police could not say exactly when the abduction took place.

    Ubaidi was the third defense lawyer to be killed since the trial of Saddam and his seven co-defendants on charges of crimes against humanity started last October. Enditem