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| Deadly car bombings strike around Iraqi capital, Baghdad | Deadly car bombings strike around Iraqi capital, Baghdad |
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| Car bombings in and around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more, police say. | Car bombings in and around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more, police say. |
| In one attack, a car packed with explosives exploded near an army checkpoint in the town of Mahmoudiya, south of the capital, killing five. | |
| Shortly after, a car bomb was detonated in the northern Baghdad suburb of Taji, claiming six lives, officials said. | |
| Another bomb in a mostly Shia district in north Baghdad killed at least five. | |
| A series of suicide attacks across Iraq last week left at least 30 people dead. | A series of suicide attacks across Iraq last week left at least 30 people dead. |
| No-one has admitted carrying out the latest attacks but Sunni insurgents have been blamed for recent violence in Iraq. | |
| Two soldiers were among those killed in Mahmoudiya, 30km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, officials said. At least 14 other people were wounded. | |
| The attack in Taji happened near an army base, reports said. More than 20 people were reported to have been injured. | |
| The third car bomb exploded in a crowded market in the Shula district of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. | |
| Relations between Iraq's Sunni community and Shia-dominated government have become increasingly strained. | |
| Although sectarian violence has decreased in Iraq since the height of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, attacks are still common. |