Bus bombings south of Baghdad kill 20 - police

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Bombs planted on two minibuses killed 20 people and wounded 10 near the usually quiet southern Iraqi town of Kut on Monday, police sources in Baghdad said.

The buses were on their way to Kut, a mainly Shi'ite Muslim area 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, from Baghdad, one police source in Kut said. The Kut official put the toll at 11 killed and 10 wounded.

Iraq has been reeling from a series of huge bombings in the last two months, mainly in and around the capital Baghdad, the troubled northern city of Mosul and western Anbar province.

Violence in those regions has been partly blamed on feuds between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunnis and ethnic Kurds. Mainly Shi'ite southern Iraq has been relatively quiet.

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