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Posted by admin on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 04:56 PM

26/12/2006 13:28 - (SA)

Baghdad - At least 25 people died on Tuesday in co-ordinated car bomb attacks in western Baghdad, a doctor at a hospital said.

At least 55 people were wounded, said the doctor at Yarmouk hospital, which received the victims. The attacks occurred in a commercial area and public transport hub in a mixed Sunni and Shiite neighbourhood. In central Baghdad, a bomb exploded in an open-air market, killing four people and wounding 15 others, police said. The explosives were hidden in a CD player delivered to an electronics repair shop there, police said. The man who asked for the repair left the area before it exploded. Police also said that two roadside bombs targeted an Iraqi police patrol in an eastern neighborhood of the capital, killing four policemen - including a lieutenant colonel - and injuring 12 people. In Kirkuk, 290 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital, another roadside bomb killed three civilians - including an eight-year-old girl - and hurt six other people, police said.

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