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Car bomb in Baghdad book district kills 16 -police
05 Mar 2007 09:25:28 GMT
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BAGHDAD, March 5 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 16 people and wounded 12 others on Monday in the area of Mutanabi Street, a Baghdad district lined with book shops, Iraqi police said.

They said there had been a second explosion nearby, but there were no details on casualties.

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A pilgrim bound for Kerbala carries a Shi'ite flag in Hilla, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, March 7, 2007. More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, defying insurgents who killed 155 people in two days in attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.


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