Iraq Watch: April 18, 2007

Rundown of Violence

Anbar Province

_ Police uncovered 25 bodies in Ramadi.

Baghdad Province

_ A car bomb tore through the capital's Sadriyah market killing at least 127 and wounding nearly 150 more.

_ A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint near the Shiite enclave of Sadr City leaving over 40 dead and 75 injured.

_ In the central Karradah district a car bomb exploded outside a local hospital killing at least 11 bystanders. 13 others were reported injured in the bombing.

_ Four Iraqis were killed when a bomb hidden on a minibus detonated in the Rusafi neighborhood.

_ A suicide car bomber killed two Iraqi policemen and two civilians late Wednesday in southeastern Baghdad's Saydiyah district. An additional eight people were wounded.

Diyala Province

_ 18 corpses were found in the religiously mixed city of Baqouba.

Nineveh Province

_ A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and a civilian in eastern Mosul. Also Wednesday, eight bodies were found in the northern city.

Salahuddin Province

_ Gunmen assassinated three people in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, including the son of Iraq's deputy interior minister.

Sources: AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters