Marketplace car bomb kills 10 in northeast Iraq

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iraqi officials say a car bomb explosion has killed 10 people in a marketplace in a town northeast of Baghdad.Two police officials said that the parked car bomb exploded Thursday morning in the town of Khalis as shoppers were starting to arrive.A local hospital official says 22 persons were wounded in the blast.All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.Khalis, a Shiite enclave 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad, is surrounded by the largely Sunni province of Diyala. The province is a former stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq./129