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| Iraq |
| Dozens killed as bombings rock Baghdad |
| 2014-07-20 |
| A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, have killed at least 27 people across the Iraqi capital, officials say. The attacks on Saturday are among the most significant in Baghdad since fighters led by the Islamic State group captured Iraq's second-largest city Mosul last month. The first bombing took place in the Shia neighbourhood of Abu Dashir, where a suicide attacker drove a car packed with explosives into a checkpoint, killing at least nine people and wounding 19, officials said. Four policemen were among the dead, a police officer said. Later in the day, three car bombs went off in different neighbourhoods of Baghdad, hitting the districts of Baya, Jihad and Kadhimiyah. Police sources told Al Jazeera that the car bomb in Kadhimiyah killed nine people and injured 20 others. Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures in all of the attacks. Baghdad has seen few attacks compared to the violence in other areas hit by the Islamic State's offensive last month, though bombs still hit the city on a fairly regular basis. |
| Posted by:Steve White |