Bombings Tuesday killed at least 48 people in Baghdad and in two major provincial capitals in Iraq. The deadliest attack happened in the Diyala province capital of Baquba when a car bomb detonated outside a crowded restaurant, killing 40 people and wounding 75, according to sources on the scene, an Interior Ministry official and the U.S. military.The attack happened near the courthouse and other government offices in Baquba, a medical source and a resident told CNN. Women and children are among the dead.
Iraqi and U.S. troops have been fighting militants in Diyala province, which stretches north and east of the capital and borders Iran.
A man wearing a suicide vest detonated inside a restaurant in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad.
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