<br/>In Iraq, eighteen people were killed and 80 wounded in a car bomb blast that hit Baghdad’s area of al-Karada on Tuesday.<br/><br/>Quoting police sources, Voice of Iraq news agency reports that a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb near the Criminal Evidence Department in Baghdad’s al-Tahariyat Square.<br/><br/>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.