Special report: Tension accelerates in Iraq

Smoke rises from a clothing market after an explosion in central Baghdad, capital of Iraq, June 25, 2006. Three people were killed and seven wounded in the blast on Sunday. (Xinhua Photo)

    BAGHDAD, June 25 (Xinhua) --At least three people were killed and seven injured when a bomb went off in a busy market in central Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.

    The blast took place at the busy Takiyah market, part of Iraq's main wholesale market of Shorjah in central Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity.

    The Iraqi police and ambulances rushed to the area to evacuate killed and wounded people, he said.

    The attack came shortly before the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki presented his new plan for national reconciliation to the parliament, a move in which he hopes to curb the flaring Sunni Arab-led insurgency and help to bridge the country's deepening communal divisions. Enditem

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