A double car bombing struck a busy commercial district Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in weeks.
Iraqi officials said the explosives-laden cars were parked between a passport office and a courthouse when they blew up nearly simultaneously in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Karradah.
Authorities lifted a ban on parking vehicles in the area about three months ago, although the buildings remained surrounded by concrete walls for protection against bombings.
Police and an official at the nearby Ibn al-Nafis hospital said the 12 killed were all civilians. The officials, who spoke on condition …
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