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Bomb Blasts Across Iraq Kill More Than 50
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=134A615:3919ACA North of Baghdad,
roadside bomb killed 23 soldiers when it ripped through bus carrying
Iraqi troops; soldiers among dead







Iraqis wounded in massive car bomb are carried away from scene,
Tuesday morningIraqi authorities say a string of bomb attacks across
the country Tuesday, killed more than 50 people and wounded scores of
others.

North of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed 23 soldiers when it ripped
through a bus carrying Iraqi troops. In the city of Mahmoudiya, a car
bomb killed seven people, including one policeman.

Another car bomb outside a bank in Baghdad killed 14 people and
wounded many others. The dead include several soldiers.

The bank usually is busy on the first day of the month when soldiers
draw their salary payments.

Other bombings today in the northern oil city of Kirkuk and the town
of Muqdadiya killed 10 people.

And the British military says a mortar attack killed a British soldier
at a base in Basra. In another incident, a roadside bomb killed an
American soldier south of Baghdad.

Authorities say sectarian violence has forced 20,000 Iraqis to leave
their homes during the past 10 days. Over the past six months,
sectarian strife has displaced more than 180,000 people.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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