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| Eight people have been killed and more than 30 injured when two bombs exploded in a crowded market in central Baghdad, Iraqi security officials say. | Eight people have been killed and more than 30 injured when two bombs exploded in a crowded market in central Baghdad, Iraqi security officials say. |
| The blasts, both believed to be caused by car bombs, happened almost simultaneously, the officials said. | The blasts, both believed to be caused by car bombs, happened almost simultaneously, the officials said. |
| The number of casualties is expected to rise, according to police sources. | |
| Car bombs have exploded in various markets in Iraq this week after the curfew imposed for the sentencing of Saddam Hussein was lifted. | |
| On Wednesday, two car bombs set off in busy markets killed at least 10 people as they shopped. | |
| On Thursday in Baghdad alone, a series of bombings killed 18 people and wounded dozens more. | |
| Some 100 people have been killed in Iraq in the past four days as Baghdad and other parts of Iraq suffered renewed violence following a lull during the curfew. | |
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| Saturday's blasts happened at the busy Shorja wholesale market, the scene of many previous deadly attacks, an interior ministry source said. | |
| In other violence, a suicide car bomber attacked a police station and killed two people in the town of Zaghinya, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, Reuters news agency quoted police as saying. | |
| The US government's representative office in the Iraqi town of Hilla came under mortar attack, reportedly sparking a fire in the complex, the Associated Press reported. | |
| It was the second attack on the office in recent weeks. |