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Two killed in Baghdad minibus bomb attack

A bomb inside a minibus in a market in Baghdad's Sadr City Shia slum area has killed two people and wounded five.   

Sadr City, in eastern Baghdad, is a stronghold of radical Shia cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr, who is a member of the ruling Shia coalition.

Seven car bombs exploded in the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing at least eight people and wounding 80.