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| At least 30 people have been killed in a double suicide bombing at a revered Shia shrine in Baghdad, police say. | |
| The attack happened in the Kadhimiya district of the capital, as people gathered for Friday prayers. At least 100 people are reportedly injured. | |
| It comes a day after nearly 80 people were killed in two separate suicide bombings in Baghdad and in Baquba. | It comes a day after nearly 80 people were killed in two separate suicide bombings in Baghdad and in Baquba. |
| Violence has fallen sharply in the last year but insurgents continue to carry out attacks across Iraq. | Violence has fallen sharply in the last year but insurgents continue to carry out attacks across Iraq. |
| The latest bombing does not change this trend but it is a worrying development, especially after Thursday's attacks, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad. | |
| New statistics from Iraq's health ministry say that since 2005 when violence worsened more then 87,000 Iraqis have been killed. | |
| The figures are based on hospital and morgue records and are seen as significant given the heated and highly politicised debate over the human cost of the war in Iraq, our correspondent says. | |
| The bombers detonated their explosives belts within minutes of each other near the tomb of Imam Mousa al-Kazim shrine, a police official told the Associated Press news agency. | |
| The attack follows one of the deadliest days of violence in Iraq so far this year. | |
| At least 48 people, mainly Iranian pilgrims, were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a restaurant in Baquba, Diyala province, north-east of the capital on Thursday. | |
| And in Baghdad, a suicide bomber infiltrated a crowd of displaced families as they received supplies from police in Baghdad, detonating an explosives belt and killing at least 28 people. |