IRAQ BOOMING: twin blasts on busy street, kill 23

A A series of bombings in Baghdad and near the Iraqi capital killed at least 23 people today, officials said.
The deadliest of the day’s attacks came shortly before sunset, when a bomb exploded in a street in Baghdad’s southeastern suburb of Jisr Diyala.

Minutes later, a car bomb went off near the site of the first blast as people started gathering around it to help the victims.

Police and hospital officials put the casualty toll in Jisr Diyala at up to eight killed and 20 wounded, including several students who had just come out of a nearby school after class.