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Iraq bomb blasts leave 28 dead in Taji

Two explosions at a municipal government building in the Iraqi town of Taji have left 28 people dead.

A car bomb and a roadside bomb detonated in a crowded car park this morning. Taji is around 20km north of Baghdad.

'It was a double explosion. The first was caused by a car bomb,' said Raad al-Tamimi, the head of the Taji municipality.

'The place was crowded with people who were going to process official papers and with police and employees,' he said.

The bombings follow a series of attacks that targeted Iraqi security forces over the last two days, killing at least ten police and soldiers and wounding 22 others.