BAGHDAD — A bomb exploded inside a bus station north of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding 10, police said, the deadliest in a series of attacks in northern Iraq.
A U.S. soldier also was killed Friday in a grenade attack in the northern province of Ninevah, raising to at least 22 the number of American service members killed so far this month.
The bus station bomb Friday was attached to a car parked inside the station in the Shiite enclave of Khalis, according to local police and a report from the provincial security headquarters.
The U.S. military said the attack occurred near a vegetable market, killing at least one person and wounding 14.
Conflicting casualty tolls are common after a bombing.
Earlier Friday, a local leader of a government- backed Sunni paramilitary group was killed when a bomb on a motorcycle exploded as he opened his butcher store on the outskirts of the Diyala provincial capital of Baqubah, police said.
