A car bomb exploded Monday night in a commercial district of Iraq's second largest city Basra, killing at least 20 people and injuring about 40, a police official said, according to AP. The blast went off about 8:30 p.m. in a commercial area filled with shops and restaurants, many of them packed with people out for the evening during Ramadan festivities, Lt. Col. Karim al-Zaidi. Al-Zaidi, who gave the casualty report, said the number of deaths was expected to rise.
