2 killed in bomb blast outside Iraq primary school
(AP)
Updated: 2006-02-22 14:01

A roadside bomb exploded Wednesday near a primary school in a mostly Shiite area in southern Iraq, killing two boys and injuring four others, police said.

The incident happened at about 7:45 a.m. in the Bashrogiya area near Kut, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police Lt. Othman al-Rawi said.

There have been a series of attacks in heavily Shiite areas in recent days, raising fears of an escalation in sectarian violence.

At least 22 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a street packed with shoppers in a Shiite section of Baghdad's Dora neighborhood on Tuesday, and 12 people died Monday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt on a bus in the capital's Kazimiyah district.