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47 killed, wounded in two blasts in Baghdad

June 21, 2009 - 06:29:49

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Forty-seven persons on Sunday were killed or wounded in two blasts that occurred in the capital Baghdad, according to security sources.

“At 08:30 p.m., a suicide bomber blew himself up in a popular café in Abu Dasheer area, southern Baghdad, killing 15 persons and wounding 25 others, according to an initial count,” a police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“One civilian was killed and six others were injured when a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) went off near al-Baghdadi Restaurant in Baghdad’s southern area of al-Doura,” according to another security source.

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