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Deadly bomb attacks hit Baghdad | Deadly bomb attacks hit Baghdad |
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At least 18 people have been killed in two rush-hour bomb attacks in Baghdad. | |
Security officials say at least 13 people died when a roadside bomb blew up a minibus carrying government employees in eastern Baghdad. | |
In a separate incident, a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, killing five people, police said. | In a separate incident, a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, killing five people, police said. |
The secure area houses foreign embassies, government offices and the Iraqi parliament. | The secure area houses foreign embassies, government offices and the Iraqi parliament. |
Initial reports say many others have been wounded in the attacks. | |
Hospital and police sources are quoted as saying that the 13 killed in the roadside bomb were all female employees in Iraq's trade ministry. | |
The female suicide bomber detonated her explosives in a crowd of people waiting to enter the Green Zone on their way to work, security officials said. | |
Correspondents say the use of women in suicide bomb attacks in Iraq has become more common. |