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Deadly car bomb blasts in Baghdad | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
At least four people have been killed in two car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. | |
One went off early on Sunday near Tahrir Square, a busy shopping area in the centre of the city. It killed at least three people and injured 15. | |
In another part of Baghdad, a bomb near a police station killed one officer and wounded several other people. | |
The blasts come days after figures suggested a new security operation in Baghdad had not diminished violence. | |
On Friday the Iraqi health ministry said its final count for violent deaths in Baghdad in August stood at 1,536. | |
That was nearly three times the ministry's earlier estimate. Correspondents say this indicates a nearly undiminished level of sectarian and insurgent killings. | |
The health ministry's figures are compiled from reports by hospitals and mortuaries in Baghdad area. | |
Last month the US military spokesman in Iraq, Maj Gen William Caldwell, said the rate of violent deaths in Baghdad had fallen significantly from July to August. |
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