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Baghdad Hit By Multiple Bombings

   VOA News 06 August 2010

   Iraqi  authorities say a policeman was killed at least 26 other people
   were wounded in roadside blasts in Baghdad Friday.
   Reports  say  the  policeman was killed in western Baghdad when a bomb
   exploded near a police patrol. Five others were wounded in the attack,
   at least two of them police and two civilians.
   Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, a roadside bomb near an army patrol in
   the western part of the city wounded six , including two soldiers. And
   two  policemen  and 13 civilians were injured after a bomb exploded in
   northern Baghdad.
   Thursday,  police  said  gunmen  stormed  a Baghdad money exchange and
   killed three people. It was the latest in a rash of daylight robberies
   of banks or financial centers in the Iraqi capital.
   On  Thursday,  a  bomb  attached  to  a Ramadi local health department
   pickup   truck   exploded,  killing  the  driver  and  wounding  three
   bystanders.
   Earlier,  police  officials said three traffic officers were killed in
   drive-by shootings late Wednesday in western Baghdad.

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

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