Twin blasts hit Baghdad
Most victims were queuing for fuel at a petrol station in the Iraqi capital.
Published On 4 Jan 2007
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There has been a relative lull in major attacks and violence over the Eid al-Adha holiday, which ended on Wednesday.
But US Major-General William Caldwell said on Wednesday that US and Iraqi forces were braced for a possible violent backlash after Saddam Hussein was hanged on Saturday and an illicitly filmed video of the hanging showed him being taunted by Shia officials just before his death.
The video has inflamed sectarian tensions in a country already on the brink of civil war.
UN statistics say an average of more than 100 people a day are killed in bombings, mortar attacks and sectarian death squad killings.
Source: News Agencies