Car bomb kills dozens in Baghdad

A suicide car bomber targeted a Shiite funeral procession in the Iraqi capital Friday, killing 31 people and wounding 60 others, two police officials said.

The blast occurred as mourners passed by an outdoor market and headed toward a hospital in Baghdad's Zafarniya district to recover the bodies of three relatives shot the night before in the western part of the city, the officials said.

The police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release details to the media.

The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks in the nation that have killed more than 200 people this year. They occurred amid a political crisis raising fears of a return to the sectarian violence of last decade -- the Sunni-Shiite hostilities that engulfed Iraq at the height of the war.

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