Marketplace Car Bomb Kills 10 in Northeast Iraq

Iraqi officials say a car bomb explosion has killed 10 people in a marketplace in a town northeast of Baghdad.

Two police officials said that the parked car bomb exploded Thursday morning in the town of Khalis as shoppers were starting to arrive.

A local hospital official says 22 persons were wounded in the blast.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Khalis, a Shiite enclave 50 miles north of Baghdad, is surrounded by the largely Sunni province of Diyala. The province is a former stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq.