Special Report: Execution of Saddam

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At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

    BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

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    "A car bomb parking at a popular market in Kufa town detonated at about 10:00 a.m. (0700 GMT), killing 30 people and wounding 45 others," the source said on condition of anonymity.

    The attack came just few hours after the Iraqi government executed the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein by hanging early Saturday.

At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf. The attack came just few hours after the Iraqi government executed the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein by hanging early Saturday. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery >>>