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Multiple bombings kill 40 in northern Iraq
A busy army recruitment centre and a police checkpoint are the latest hit by suicide bombers in Iraq.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:59 July 15, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- At least 27 recruits were injured in a blast outside an army recruitment centre in Baquba.
Baghdad: Bombers killed around 40 people and wounded scores in several attacks in northern Iraq on Tuesday.
The attacks came days after the government vowed to expand a crackdown against militants in a region where Al Qaida retains influence.
In the worst attacks, two suicide bombers killed 27 people and wounded 68 when they blew themselves up outside an army recruitment centre in Baquba.
The US military said 20 of those killed were recruits, saying the attackers blew themselves up in a line of men outside the centre.
"An explosion shook everything. I saw chunks of flesh scattered everywhere and some recruits were calling for their friends," said wounded recruit Nadhim Hameed.
Hours after those attacks, three bomb blasts hit the northern city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province.
In the worst attack, a suicide car bomber killed eight people and wounded a policeman at a police checkpoint, the US military said. Police sources put the death toll at five.
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