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Two car bombs and a barrage of mortars in the centre of the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least nine people and wounded 50 more. | |
One car reportedly exploded outside the foreign ministry near the edge of the heavily guarded Green Zone. Another went off close to the finance ministry. | |
Iraq has witnessed a reduction in insurgency violence recently, but attacks remain common in some cities. | |
The violence comes exactly six years after one of the first major attacks. | |
On 19 August 2003, the UN headquarters in Baghdad was hit by a suicide truck bomb, killing 22 people in what was the most deadly attack up until that point following the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein. | |
In the past six years, tens of thousands of have been killed in the violence that followed. |