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| Baghdad blasts claim more lives | Baghdad blasts claim more lives |
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| At least 20 people have been killed and 30 injured in a suicide bombing in east Baghdad, police say. | |
| The attacker, wearing a suicide vest, blew himself up outside the College of Administration and Economics. | The attacker, wearing a suicide vest, blew himself up outside the College of Administration and Economics. |
| Earlier, four people were injured in a car bombing in the Karrada district of the city, and one was killed in an explosion near the Iranian embassy. | Earlier, four people were injured in a car bombing in the Karrada district of the city, and one was killed in an explosion near the Iranian embassy. |
| A mortar was also fired into a Shia area in south Baghdad, injuring two people. | A mortar was also fired into a Shia area in south Baghdad, injuring two people. |
| The attacks came a day after more than 40 people died in a truck bomb attack near a Sunni mosque in the town of Habbaniyah, to the west of Baghdad. | The attacks came a day after more than 40 people died in a truck bomb attack near a Sunni mosque in the town of Habbaniyah, to the west of Baghdad. |
| At least 60 people were injured in the blast, which came only hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said sectarian killings had fallen as a result of the recent security surge. | At least 60 people were injured in the blast, which came only hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said sectarian killings had fallen as a result of the recent security surge. |
| 'Mehdi Army's college' | |
| On Sunday, the suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden belt near the main entrance to the college after being confronted by guards, police said. | |
| Most of the victims were students, police and witnesses said. | |
| "There was an explosion. I did not feel anything for 15 minutes and when I returned to consciousness, I found myself in the hospital," Muhanad Nasir, a 22-year-old student, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. | |
| The college is part of al-Mustansiriyah university, Baghdad's second largest, the BBC's Jane Peel in Baghdad says. | |
| It is controlled by the powerful Shia militia, the Mehdi Army, and had received threats warning it to close, our correspondent says. | |
| It is not the first time the university's been targeted. | |
| Last month, more than 100 students were killed in a co-ordinated attack involving two car bombs and a suicide bomber at the university's main building. |