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Series of bombs leaves 23 people wounded in Iraq
Twenty-three people have been wounded in a series of bomb and mortar attacks in Baghdad early on Tuesday, Iraqi security officials said.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:44 January 29, 2008
Baghdad: Twenty-three people have been wounded in a series of bomb and mortar attacks in Baghdad early on Tuesday, Iraqi security officials said.
A bomb exploded on Saydun Street along the Tigris river in the centre of Baghdad as an Iraqi army patrol were passing by wounding six civilians and four soldiers.
Shortly afterwards, another bomb went off in the neighbouring district of Karrada wounding another five people.
In the Sunni district of Yarmuk in western Baghdad, an explosion left another three civilians wounded and two more people were hurt when a mortar round crashed on the eastern neighbourhood of Al Fadliyah.
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