Blasts kill 19 as Kerry visits Iraq capital
September 10, 2014 20:57
Bomb attacks killed 19 people in Baghdad today as US Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Iraqi capital for talks on combatting jihadists, officials said.
They said a suicide car bombing followed by a car bomb struck near a police checkpoint in a crowded area of eastern Baghdad, also wounding at least 52 people. At least two of the dead were policemen.