<br/>In Iraq, eighteen people were killed and 80 wounded on Tuesday 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.<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.<br/><br/>On Monday, three car bombs went off near Sheraton, al-Hamraa and Babel hotels in Baghdad, killing 36 persons and wounding 71 others.<br/>