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| Bomb devastates market in Baghdad | Bomb devastates market in Baghdad |
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| A car bomb has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. | A car bomb has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. |
| The bomb exploded in an outdoor market in the mainly Shia Amil district, in the south-west of the city. | The bomb exploded in an outdoor market in the mainly Shia Amil district, in the south-west of the city. |
| Many of those killed and wounded were women and children, medical and military officials said. | Many of those killed and wounded were women and children, medical and military officials said. |
| The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks on markets by suspected Sunni insurgents, as US forces carry out a security operation in Baghdad. | The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks on markets by suspected Sunni insurgents, as US forces carry out a security operation in Baghdad. |
| 'Loud explosion' | |
| The attack happened at about 1000 (0600 GMT), as the market was packed with shoppers. | The attack happened at about 1000 (0600 GMT), as the market was packed with shoppers. |
| Television pictures showed a scene of destruction across a wide area, with buildings badly damaged and cars wrecked. | Television pictures showed a scene of destruction across a wide area, with buildings badly damaged and cars wrecked. |
| Fadhil Hussein, who sells spices at the market, said: "There were four women around my stall when we heard a loud explosion, which threw me many metres away from my stall." | |
| "I found myself in a pickup truck with other people. Some of them were bleeding and yelling," he told the Associated Press news agency. | |
| Mr Hussein was hit in his back and head with pieces of shrapnel. | |
| Thousands of extra US and Iraqi troops have been deployed in Baghdad in recent months in an attempt to quell sectarian violence in the city. | |
| US officials say the number of sectarian murders has decreased in the three months since the security operation began, but car bombings are still a regular event in Baghdad and other cities across Iraq. | |
| In other attacks across Baghdad, two Iraqi policemen were killed and one injured when their car was ambushed by gunmen in the Khadra district. | |
| And a roadside bomb blast hit a police patrol car in the east of Baghdad, killing one policeman and injuring three. | |
| The US military in Iraq said it killed nine suspected insurgents and freed 12 Iraqi hostages in a raid on a house in western Baghdad. | |
| US and Iraqi troops are still searching for three US soldiers missing since their patrol was ambushed on 12 May. | |
| Four US soldiers and one Iraqi were killed in the attack, near Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad. |