15 killed in Iraq bombings

Bomb attacks in central Iraq left at least 15 people dead and 18 wounded on Saturday, security officials and a doctor said.

In the first attack, bombs on each side of the main road from Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, to Fallujah hit a truck carrying construction workers, First Lieutenant Omar Zawbai of the Abu Ghraib police told AFP.

Dr Omar Delli of Fallujah Hospital said that "the hospital received seven bodies and seven wounded," two of whom later died.

An interior ministry official put the casualty toll at eight dead and 13 wounded from the Abu Ghraib attack.
The official also said that three bombs exploded in the Baab al-Sharqi area of central Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 28 others.

A defence ministry official put the toll from the Baghdad blasts at eight dead and 13 wounded.