(updates death toll, adds background) BAGHDAD, Jan 22 (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 40 others wounded when a bomb exploded on Monday in a market near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, police sources said. Another police source said a suicide bomber blew himself up among Shi'ite Muslims gathered for a religious ceremony. He said 14 were killed. A double car bombing near central Baghdad's crowded Bab al- Sharji market killed 75 people on Monday.
Children stand in the compound of a relative's residence, at which they are now staying after their families left their homes in Baghdad for Arbil, about 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad, January 19, 2007. Tens of thousands of people have fled Baghdad, the epicentre of violence in Iraq. The United Nations, launching an appeal for aid for Iraqis who have fled their homes or left the country, said this month about one in eight Iraqis is now displaced. Many, including non-Kurds, have taken refuge in Kurdistan -- a largely autonomous region in the northern mountains that has been a haven from attacks plaguing other areas since the U.S. invasion of 2003. Picture taken January 19, 2007. To match feature MIGRATION-IRAQ/ARBIL.
