26 killed in Baghdad car bombings

Updated: 15:04, Monday, 6 April 2009

Five car bombs exploded across Baghdad killing 26 people, police said.

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In the deadliest attack, a blast at a popular market in eastern Baghdad's Shia Sadr City slum killed at least ten people and wounded 65, police said.

Another car bomb blew up next to a group of labourers queuing for work, killing six people and wounding 16.

Two other blasts shook a market area of Husseiniya, on Baghdad's northern outskirts, killing four, and a street in eastern Baghdad, apparently targeting the convoy of an Interior Ministry official, killing one of his guards and a bystander.

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