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| Bomb hits Iraqi forensics centre | Bomb hits Iraqi forensics centre |
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| A suicide car bomber has killed at least 17 people and injured 80 at a government forensics centre in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police say. | |
| The attacker apparently tried to drive through a police checkpoint in the Kerrada district leading to the criminal investigations centre. | The attacker apparently tried to drive through a police checkpoint in the Kerrada district leading to the criminal investigations centre. |
| One report suggests the centre was badly damaged and the death toll, which includes three police, may rise. | One report suggests the centre was badly damaged and the death toll, which includes three police, may rise. |
| Bomb attacks near well-known hotels in the city on Monday killed 36 people. | Bomb attacks near well-known hotels in the city on Monday killed 36 people. |
| "The building collapsed soon after the explosion," an interior ministry official told AFP news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity. | |
| "Dozens of people usually work in the [forensics] institute." | |
| An Iraqi military spokesman, Maj-Gen Qassim Atta, said the forensics centre had been the target of two bomb attacks in the past. | |
| "At 1045 [0745 GMT] a suicide bomber raced his vehicle towards the institute" and blew it up, the spokesman said. | |
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