BAGHDAD, May 06, SPA -- A car bomb ripped through a wholesale food market in western Baghdad on Sunday, flattening cars and shops and killing at least 27 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in recent days. The attack came amid an 11-week-old crackdown by U.S.-led forces intended to bring stability to Baghdad. The blast, which erupted about noon in the Baiyaa neighborhood, devastated the market, reducing cars and trucks to their charred skeletons and ripping the roofs and exteriors off of shops. In addition to the dead, dozens of others were injured, the Associated Press reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/447184