In Iraq, eighteen people were killed and 80 wounded today in a car bomb blast that hit Baghdad’s area of al-Karada. Voice of Iraq news agency quoting police sources reports, a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb near the Criminal Evidence Department in Baghdad’s al-Tahariyat Square. A spokesperson for the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), Staff Maj. Gen.Qassem Ata, said that the majority of the casualties were personnel from the Criminal Evidence Department.Yesterday, three car bombs went off near Sheraton, al-Hamraa and Babel hotels in Baghdad, killing 36 persons and wounding 71 others.