BAGHDAD, May 08, SPA -- A suicide car bomber tore through a busy market in Kufa city on Tuesday morning,killing at least 16 people and wounding 70, the Associated Press reported. In response, local authorities closed the entrances toKufa and its sister Najaf city and imposed avehicle ban around the revered shrines and mosques in the two towns, said Ahmed Duaible, a local governmentspokesman.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/447850