Iraq: Female suicide bomber kills 3, wounds 10 in Shi'ite area of Baghdad

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a predominantly Shi'ite area in central Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing at least three people and wounding 10, police said. Police in the Masbah commercial area suspected the woman, who was in a black Islamic robe, and asked her to stop, but she fled to a nearby building, said an officer. The attack was one of two bombings in Iraq on Sunday morning. In the northern city of Mosul, a bomb in a parked car detonated, killing a police officer and two civilians, police there said.