Twin bomb attacks killed a local leader and at least four other people south of Baghdad on Thursday, wounding explosives experts who were trying to defuse a bomb, Reuters quoted Iraqi officials as saying. Twenty people were wounded in the attacks at a bus and taxi terminal in central Hilla. Provincial council member Na"ma Jassim al-Bakri was among the dead, said the governor of Babel province Salman al-Zarghani. Another official said three explosive experts called in to defuse a roadside bomb in the terminal were wounded. They were working on the device when a nearby car suddenly exploded, detonating the roadside bomb as well.
