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| Iraq rocked by series of explosions | Iraq rocked by series of explosions |
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| Explosions across Iraq killed at least 16 people and wounded 76 on Monday, police said, amid a growing political crisis that is inflaming sectarian tensions. | |
| Seven people from the same family were killed by bomb blasts near their home in the town of Mussayab, south of Baghdad. | Seven people from the same family were killed by bomb blasts near their home in the town of Mussayab, south of Baghdad. |
| In the Shia Muslim majority city of Hilla in the north, a parked car bomb went off near the convoy of the governor of Babil province, missing him but killing another person, police said. | In the Shia Muslim majority city of Hilla in the north, a parked car bomb went off near the convoy of the governor of Babil province, missing him but killing another person, police said. |
| "We heard the sound of a big explosion and the windows of our office shattered. We immediately lay on the ground," said 28-year-old Mohammed Ahmed, who works at a hospital near the site of the explosion. | |
| "After a few minutes I stood up and went to the windows to see what happened. I saw flames and people lying on the ground." | |
| In Baghdad, five people were killed by a parked car bomb targeting pilgrims before a Shia Muslim religious rite this week, police and hospital sources said. | |
| Monday's violence also included a series of blasts that killed three people in Iraq's disputed territories, over which both the central government and the autonomous Kurdish region claim jurisdiction. | |
| Two of those deaths were in the oil-rich, ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, where a bomb exploded as a police team tried to defuse it. | Two of those deaths were in the oil-rich, ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, where a bomb exploded as a police team tried to defuse it. |
| Violence in Iraq has eased since the carnage of 2006-2007, but attacks still take place on an almost daily basis. | Violence in Iraq has eased since the carnage of 2006-2007, but attacks still take place on an almost daily basis. |