BAGHDAD, July 15 (UPI) -- A wave of bombings in Iraq killed at least 40 people Tuesday but missed targeted Iraqi Minister of Electricity Kareem Wahid.
A bomb hit Wahid's motorcade as it toured Baghdad, killing three bodyguards and two bystanders but Wahid was uninjured, the news service KUNA said.
Elsewhere at least 35 people were killed outside of an Iraqi army base when two suicide bombers detonated their devices, officials said.
The Interior Ministry said most of the casualties were army recruits, CNN said. Sixty-three other people were injured when the two, posing as army recruits, set off bombs outside the recruitment center at Saad military base in Baquba, Iraq, about 37 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala Province.
The male bombers set off the explosives about 30 seconds apart in a crowd of more than 200 recruits, military officials said.
