At Least 157 Dead in Iraq Blasts

World | April 18, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00

Bombings in Baghdad have killed 157 people and wounded another 166, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said, as cited by CNN.

The worst attack - in a food market in the Sadriya area of the city took the lives of more than 80 and was one of the series of bomb attacks, which struck mainly Shia areas of the city.

The blasts came as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said Iraqi security forces would assume control of the country by the end of the year.

On Monday, the Iraqi parliament bloc loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr withdrew from the cabinet, demanding Mr Maliki set a timetable for a US troop withdrawal.

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