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Baghdad car bomb blast kills 29 Baghdad car bomb blast kills 33
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A car bomb has killed at least 29 people and injured dozens in a mostly Shia Muslim district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. A car bomb has killed at least 33 people and injured dozens more in a mostly Shia Muslim district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.
It went off in Bayaa in the south-west of the city - an area which has already been targeted by car bombs blamed on Sunni insurgents several times. The blast happened in Bayaa in the south-west of the city - an area which has been targeted several times by car bombs blamed on Sunni insurgents.
Bystanders used blankets to carry away dead and injured, placing them in the back of pick-up trucks, Reuters says. Bystanders used blankets to carry away dead and injured, placing them in the back of pick-up trucks, Reuters said.
Bombs have continued to rock the city despite an 11-week security clampdown.Bombs have continued to rock the city despite an 11-week security clampdown.
There is little evidence that the Baghdad Security Plan, or "surge" as it is also known, has made inroads against the insurgency, the BBC's Humphrey Hawksley reports from Baghdad. Correspondents say that while the so-called surge has managed to reduce deaths linked to sectarian violence, there is little evidence that it has made inroads against the insurgency.
North of the capital in the Sunni city of Samarra, coordinated attacks on a police station left at least 10 people dead.
Militants fired shots at the police station and then a suicide car bomber rammed the gates. The local police chief was said to be among the dead.
In other developmentsIn other developments
  • US forces raided Baghdad's Sadr City district, a Shia militant stronghold, saying they killed up to 10 gunmen
  • US forces raided Baghdad's Sadr City district, a Shia militant stronghold, saying they killed up to 10 gunmen
  • Insurgents detonated a car bomb at a police station in Samarra, killing at least three people, and an attack on a police checkpoint elsewhere in the city left one policeman dead
  • A car bomb near a government ministry in Baghdad's Mansur district killed at least two people and injured several others
  • A car bomb near a government ministry in Baghdad's Mansur district killed at least two people and injured several others
  • The US announced the deaths of three more of its soldiers since Friday, two in Anbar province and one in Baghdad