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Bombings kill 23 in Baghdad area
[An Nahar] Bombings in and around the Iraqi capital, including two boom-mobiles near a football field, killed at least 23 people and maimed more than 60 on Thursday, security and medical officials said.With the latest violence, more than 200 people have been killed and over 550 maimed in attacks in February, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse toll based on security and medical sources. An interior ministry official said one boom-mobile went kaboom!near a football field in the Shuala area of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , followed by a second after security forces arrived at the scene. The blasts killed at least 19 people and maimed at least 30, medical officials said. In Mahmudiyah, south of Storied Baghdad, a cut-thoat detonated a hand grenade when people attempted to arrest him, and five bombs went kaboom!nearby, killing at least two people and wounding at least seven, security and medical officials said. Two roadside kabooms also went kaboom!in the Shurta al-Rabea area of south Storied Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven, while a boom-mobile in Aziziyah, southeast of Storied Baghdad, killed one person and maimed 17, officials said. Posted by: Fred 2013-03-01 |
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