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16 Killed In Series of Blasts Across Iraq
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 22 - 05 - 2011

A rapid-fire series of explosions in and around Baghdad killed 16 people Sunday, including 10 people who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police officers, officials said.
In total, at least 10 bombs exploded as Iraqis were headed to work, according to a report of the Associated Press. At least nine of the dead were police officers.
The worst single attack Sunday came near the city of Taji, which is 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
Police officers had gathered after a roadside bomb targeting a passing American military convoy blew up. When the police arrived on the scene, a suicide bomber walked into the crowd and blew himself up, police and hospital officials said.
Seven police and three civilians died and 19 people, including 15 policemen, were injured, the officials said.
Earlier in the capital, the beginning of the work week was shattered by a quick series of blasts.
At about 7 a.m. a car bomb in a parking lot in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood exploded, injuring five people and damaging several nearby cars..
Minutes later, also in Sadr City, a bomb hidden in a pile of garbage exploded, killing one person and wounding five more.
Then five minutes later another roadside bomb, this time targeting a police patrol, exploded; 3 policemen and four bystanders were injured in that blast.
In the southwestern neighborhood of Bayaa, the morning calm was shattered by five explosions that went off in rapid succession.
First a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol. Then a minute later another roadside bomb went off in a commercial street followed by two roadside bombs hidden in a pile of garbage on a highway.
Finally, a parked car bomb went off on a road that marks the intersection between Bayaa and the adjoining neighborhood.
In total, five people were killed in Bayaa, including 2 policemen, and 15 people were injured, including six policemen, police and hospital officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.


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