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Bosonic

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Tue Jul 21, 2015, 03:40 PM Jul 2015

19 killed in two Baghdad car bombs

Source: AFP

Baghdad (AFP) - Two car bombs killed at least 19 people in mostly Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad Tuesday, police said.

One attack struck a busy commercial street in the eastern neighbourhood of Baghdad al-Jadida, police said.

Seventeen people were killed and 43 wounded, mostly civilians, a police colonel said. Hospital sources and an official at the interior ministry confirmed the toll.

At least two people were killed and nine wounded in another attack in Zafaraniya, a district in southern Baghdad, the same sources said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/19-killed-two-baghdad-car-bombs-185526759.html

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