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Wednesday
Aug252010

Iraq Breaking: Bombings Kill Dozens, Wound More than 200 Across Country

UPDATE 1020 GMT: Conflicting reports on the toll at Kut. Al Jazeera English says 10 killed and 15 wounded; Reuters says at least 26 dead.

At least 32 people have been killed and more than 200 wounded in bombings across Iraq today.

A suicide car bomber targeted the Qahira police station in the north of Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding around 58 others on Wednesday. On Haifa Street in central Baghdad, 10 people were wounded by an improvised explosive device.

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Hospital sources claim at least 16 were killed and 87 wounded after a suicide car bomber attacked a police station in southern Iraqi city of Kut.

West of the city of Karbala in central Iraq, a suicide car bomber targeted a police station, killing one person and injuring at least 30.

Two car bombs also exploded in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. A police source said two of the bombers were killed as they attempted to rig a car with explosives. A later car bomb wounded 12 people.

In northern Iraq, one person died and another eight were wounded by a bomb attack in Kirkuk. In eastern Mosul, a car bomb targeting an army checkpoint injured three people, including a child.

On Tuesday, a suicide car bomber targeted a police check-point in eastern Baquba, the capital of Diyala province in eastern Iraq. The attack killed three people, including the bodyguard for Diyala's governor, and wounded 13 others.

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