A suicide car bomber drove up to an American military Humvee swarming with Iraqi children and detonated his explosive on Wednesday, killing up to 27 other people, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. One U.S. soldier and about a dozen children were among the dead.
At least 21 others, including three U.S. soldiers, were wounded in the attack. The explosion also set a nearby house on fire.
Hospitals and police said between 11 and 13 children were killed, The AP reported.
In other violence Wednesday, gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier while he was driving his car in western Baghdad, police said. In a separate attack Wednesday, a roadside bomb went off near an American patrol in eastern Baghdad, killing a 7-year-old child and seriously wounding a woman, police said.
Meanwhile, a Sunni official said the tortured bodies of 11 Sunnis, who had been executed with a bullet to the head, were found in Baghdad Tuesday after having been arrested by police commandos two days earlier. Their bodies were found dumped in the north of the city on Tuesday, he added, according to AFP, and "all bore torture marks and bullet wounds to the back of the head."
