A Kurdish doctor told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial on Thursday that children vomited blood, animals died and people sustained skin rashes and itching following a flower-smelling gas that blanketed his northern Kurdish village in a 1987 military offensive under the deposed regime.

A suicide truck bomb ripped through a line of vehicles waiting at a checkpoint on Friday in Fallujah and killed at least seven civilians, while authorities in the capital discovered the bodies of six more men who were blindfolded, handcuffed and shot in the back of the head, police said. A powerful bomb hit a United States tank in east Baghdad.