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Bomb attacks kill 5 Iraqis in Baghdad

Other News Materials 22 June 2009 12:53 (UTC +04:00)

Five people were killed and 28 others injured in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad both on Monday morning and late Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said, Xinhua reported.
  
Three people were killed and 12 others injured when a roadside bomb went off in the morning near a KIA minibus carrying passengers near al-Hamza Square in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
  
Three nearby civilian cars were also damaged by the blast, the source said.
  
Earlier in the day, three civilians were wounded in another roadside bomb explosion on a main road in the neighborhood of al- Habibiyah in the east of the capital, the source added.
  
Late on Sunday, two people were killed and 13 others injured in a bomb explosion inside a coffee shop in Baghdad's southern neighborhood of Abu Dsheer, the source said.
  
The attacks followed one of the most deadly bombing in several months when a massive truck bomb explosion killed up to 73 people and wounded more than 180 others, along with destroying over 50 clay homes in the impoverished Shiite slum of Taza in the city of Kirkuk, some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad.
  
The deadly attack was the latest bloody bombing ahead of the scheduled pullout of U.S. troops from Iraqi towns and cities by the end of the month.
  
Violence in Iraqi cities has dropped dramatically in recent months, but attacks remain common, particularly in Baghdad.

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