BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 10 people, including a local leader, were killed in twin bomb attacks on Thursday south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
Seventy people were wounded in the attacks at a bus and taxi terminal in central Hilla. Provincial council member Na'ma Jassim al-Bakri was among the dead, said Abu Ahmed al-Basri, a fellow councillor in Babel province, of which Hilla is capital.
A hospital official confirmed the death toll, which had risen from five reported earlier by Iraqi officials.
It was unclear whether Bakri was killed in the blasts themselves or by ensuing gunfire from Iraqi security forces.
Another official said three explosive experts called in to defuse a roadside bomb in the terminal were wounded.
They were working on the device when a nearby car suddenly exploded, detonating the roadside bomb as well.
Hilla, 100 km (60 miles), south of Baghdad, had become a generally quiet area as violence dropped across most of Iraq. Major attacks and ongoing insurgent activity continue in Baghdad and northern Iraq.
(Reporting by Suadad al-Salhy and Muhanad Mohammed; writing by Missy Ryan; editing by Alison Williams)
