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| Car bomb attack hits Iraqi market | Car bomb attack hits Iraqi market |
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| At least 16 people have been killed by a car bomb in North Iraq, police say. | At least 16 people have been killed by a car bomb in North Iraq, police say. |
| Another 20 people were injured when the attack in Tal Afar, 420km (260 miles) north-west of Baghdad, struck a vegetable market, reports say. | Another 20 people were injured when the attack in Tal Afar, 420km (260 miles) north-west of Baghdad, struck a vegetable market, reports say. |
| The town, near Mosul, is in a region where al-Qaeda in Iraq is said to have regrouped since being forced from Baghdad by a US offensive. | The town, near Mosul, is in a region where al-Qaeda in Iraq is said to have regrouped since being forced from Baghdad by a US offensive. |
| The car was parked when it exploded by the market, which was crowded with shoppers, Mosul police told AP. | |
| In March 2006, Tal Afar was hailed as a model Iraqi town by US President George W Bush, but almost exactly a year later it was the target of one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq's insurgency, when more than 150 people were killed in a truck bombing. | |
| A car bomb in the city last month killed 16 people. |