3-day mourning starts as death toll rises

PM's convoy attacked by residents who accuse govt of failing to protect people

Iraq began on Monday a three-day national mourning for victims of Sunday's car bombing attacks in the capital city of Baghdad, as the death toll rose to 166.

An Interior Ministry source said at least 165 people were killed and 225 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Karrada-Dakhil district in southern Baghdad. Another one was killed in a separate car bombing in a market in Baghdad.