Suicide bombing south of Baghdad kills 30
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-24 16:54

A car bomb detonated outside a hospital in the center of a town south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 30 and wounding 35, a doctor said.

Among the dead were four police guards, three women and two children, said Dr. Dawoud al-Taie, the director of the Mahmoudiya hospital.

Iraqi army Capt. Ibrahim Abdeallah said the suicide bomber was targeting U.S. military vehicles parked near the hospital in Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad. He said U.S. troops sealed off the scene and there was no damage to the U.S. vehicles. There were no immediate reports of U.S. casualties.

Mahmoudiya is a religiously mixed town in the so-called triangle of death, a region known for attacks on coalition forces and Shiites moving through the area to visit shrines south of the region.