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| Bomb blast shakes Iraqi capital | Bomb blast shakes Iraqi capital |
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| A roadside bomb has exploded near the national sports stadium in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least three people, officials say. | A roadside bomb has exploded near the national sports stadium in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least three people, officials say. |
| The bomb in the eastern Shaab district exploded in a parked car during the morning rush hour wounding at least 10. | |
| Two of those killed were police and there are reports of a second blast. | |
| The violence came after Iraqi police said 60 bodies of people bound, tortured and shot had been found in Baghdad since Tuesday morning. | |
| They were found all over the city, from Sunni areas in the west to Shia districts east of the Tigris river but most were found in largely Sunni west Baghdad. | |
| Fifteen were discovered in the east where most of the city's Shia live. | |
| Police have not been able to identify any of the bodies, let alone whether they are Shia or Sunni, the BBC's James Shaw reports. | |
| Sectarian killings in Baghdad are not unusual, but this is a large number of bodies to be recovered over a 24-hour period, our correspondent says. | |
| The police have not been able to explain what seems to be a sudden increase in sectarian violence, he adds. |