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Bombings across Baghdad kill 29, wound 81

At least 19 people died.

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In Al Bunuk area, a auto bomb also went off near a popular restaurant, killing at least two people and leaving 11 wounded.

A second bomb in the Iskan district of western Baghdad killed two people on Sunday evening, medical sources said. Police were searching the area after receiving information about two bomb threats.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for this attack.

Almost 40 people have lost their lives and over eighty more sustained injuries in a series of bomb blasts across the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

At least 35 people have been killed in a spate of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.

The Sunni radical group on Saturday night attacked three military bases of Kurdish security forces, also known as Peshmerga, in Kirkuk, some 235 km north of Baghdad, Xinhua quoted Kamal Kirkuki, a Kurdish security official, as saying.

The deadliest attack on Sunday took place in the northern Shaab neighborhood when a man wearing an explosive vest detonated himself in a crowded market, killing nine people and wounding 25.

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