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Deadly bomb blasts in Iraq cities | |
(about 14 hours later) | |
At least 14 people have been killed in bomb attacks in cities across Iraq, police say. | |
Suicide bombers targeted a police checkpoint north of Ramadi and the main Shia mosque in Baquba, killing 10. | |
Meanwhile, four people died near Karbala, south of the capital, Baghdad, after a bomb was planted on a minibus. | |
Overall violence across Iraq has fallen in the last two years, but there has been an increase since US troops pulled out of urban areas at the end of June. | Overall violence across Iraq has fallen in the last two years, but there has been an increase since US troops pulled out of urban areas at the end of June. |
Last month, a double truck bombing in Baghdad killed at least 95 people - the deadliest strike in 2009. | |
Denied entry | |
The suicide car bombing in Ramadi, in western Anbar province, happened at about 0830 (0530 GMT), a local policeman was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. | |
At least seven people died, including both police officers and civilians, officials say. | |
Ramadi - a former insurgent stronghold in Anbar - has been relatively calm since local Sunni tribal leaders sided with the US-led coalition forces in 2006. | Ramadi - a former insurgent stronghold in Anbar - has been relatively calm since local Sunni tribal leaders sided with the US-led coalition forces in 2006. |
At least three people, two of them policemen, were killed in the attack on Monday evening in Baquba, central Iraq, officials said. As many as 20 more were injured. | |
A police spokesman, Maj Ghalib al-Kharki, told the Associated Press news agency the bomber had detonated his explosives at the gate after being denied entry to the mosque by guards. | |
Police said the minibus that exploded outside Karbala had been primed with a "sticky" bomb - a magnetic device attached to the underside of the vehicle. |