29 die in twin Iraqi blasts

Published: Aug. 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM

MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A bombing at a crowded outdoor market in northern Iraq Friday killed 21 people and wounded 50 others, police said.

Nineveh provincial police said the parked car bomb went off in Tal Afar, west of Mosul.

Eight members of a single family were killed Friday in an explosion near the Iraqi city of Nasiriya, a police source told CNN.

The unidentified source said the explosion in the suburbs of the southeastern city appeared to have been caused by a former military bomb found by one of the family's children, Alsumaria reports.

The U.S. military announced that two Marines died Thursday in a non-combat related incident near Karma in Anbar province. Nine U.S. troops have died in Iraq month -- two in combat and the others in vehicle accidents and other non-combat incidents.

Elsewhere, the Iraqi TV network said Mahmoud Younes, a leader in the Islamic Party, was killed Friday in Mosul. Younes and one of his guards were killed by unknown gunmen while near the Islamic official's home.

Meanwhile, Alsumaria reported a car bombing in the Ninevah Province killed three people and injured 11 others Friday. The bombing appeared to have targeted a police patrol, the network said.

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