A car bomb went off Monday night in a commercial district of Iraq's second-largest city of Basra, killing at least 20 people and injuring some 40, a police official said.
According to the AP, the explosion took place at about 8:30 p.m. in an area full of shops and restaurants, many of them packed with people out for the evening during Ramadan festivities.
The number of deaths was expected to rise. Body parts could be seen on the street, the witnesses said.
