[Dawn] Iraqi police say at least five people have been killed and 20 others wounded in a car bombing in a mainly Sunni area northwest of Baghdad.A police officer says the explosives-laden car was parked near sidewalk vendors at an outdoor market in Haditha. The officer gave the casualty toll on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information
The blast in Haditha, 190 km (120 miles) west of Baghdad, came two days after a series of apparently coordinated bomb attacks near Shia mosques in Baghdad killed 31 people.