Thirty people, most of them Iraqi civilians, were killed when a car bomb detonated outside a hospital south of Baghdad on Thursday, police said. The blast happened in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the capital, a police official with the Interior Ministry said. The restive region is nicknamed the “Triangle of Death.” The U.S. military said the attack was a suicide car bombing that happened while Task Force Baghdad soldiers were conducting an assessment for upgrades to Mahmoudiya Hospital.Full Story
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