At least 18 killed in Baghdad explosion: source

At least 18 people were killed and over 90 wounded in an explosion in Baghdad’s Sadr City district on Wednesday, an Iraqi police source said.

An interior ministry spokesman said in a brief statement the blast was the result of the detonation of an ammunitions cache and that security forces had opened an investigation.The ammunition had been stored in a mosque and the explosion happened during its transfer into a car parked nearby, the police source said.