BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb planted in the median of a road in Baghdad exploded on Wednesday, killing five people standing in a line to collect their pensions and wounding 12 others, a police source said.
The blast hit a queue of pensioners outside a state-owned bank in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City slum, a Shi'ite area, the source said.
Bombings and other attacks are still routine in Iraq more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, although the level of violence has fallen sharply since the height of the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07.
The police source said the bomb could have killed many more people but the pensioners' queue outside the bank was smaller than usual because many people were away at a pilgrimage in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala.
(Writing by Jim Loney; Editing by Peter Graff)
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