Car Bomb Kills at Least 11 at Baghdad Market

BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 11 people at a market in southeast Baghdad on Saturday, a day after more than 80 people were killed in a series of suicide attacks in the capital and a northeastern town.

The blast in the Diyala Bridge section of Baghdad also wounded 15 people, police said. They said the toll could rise.

The attack came as more than 50 Iraqi politicians from across the country's sectarian divide gathered for reconciliation talks in Cairo aimed at easing bloodshed that has plagued Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

In a second blast on Saturday, a suicide bomber in a car attacked a police convoy in central Baghdad, wounding two police and eight civilians, police said.

On Friday, 77 people were killed and more than 80 wounded in twin suicide bomb attacks on mosques in the town of Khanaqin, near the border with Iran in northeastern Iraq.

Twin suicide car bombs also detonated outside a popular hotel in Baghdad, destroying an apartment building and killing six people. More than 40 were wounded.

Insurgents are waging a campaign of suicide bombings, shootings and assassinations in a bid to topple the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.

REUTERS Reut09:31 11-19-05