November 26, 2009 7:37 PM

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Six killed, 44 injured in Iraq in serial bomb blasts

In Iraq, a series of bombings, just before a major Muslim holiday, killed at least six people and wounded 44 others today. An Interior Ministry official said two bombs detonated in quick succession in the morning at a busy marketplace in Iskandariya, killing at least two people and wounding 28 others, including children. The official said in the second attack, a parked car bomb exploded at a taxi and bus stop in Yousifiya, which killed at least two people and wounded 10 others.<br/><br/>In other incidents, a bomb attached to a civilian vehicle detonated on a highway in eastern Baghdad, killing the driver in the car and wounding two bystanders. In southwestern Baghdad's Saydiya neighborhood, an Iraqi was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb attached to a civilian vehicle detonated. In northern Baghdad, a driver was wounded when a bomb attached to his vehicle exploded.<br/>

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