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| Iraq violence: Baghdad car bombs kill at least 15 | |
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| At least 15 people have been killed in a series of explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. | |
| Several more were wounded in the car bomb attacks, targeting mainly Shia districts of the capital, police told Reuters news agency. | |
| The violence comes amid a marked rise attacks linked to growing political and sectarian tension recently. | The violence comes amid a marked rise attacks linked to growing political and sectarian tension recently. |
| The bloodshed has raised fears of a re-emergence of the levels of sectarian violence seen in 2006 and 2007. | The bloodshed has raised fears of a re-emergence of the levels of sectarian violence seen in 2006 and 2007. |
| In one of the deadliest days recently, more than 70 people were killed and many others injured in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq a week. | |
| Baghdad was worst hit, with several explosions at bus stations and markets in mainly Shia Muslim districts. | |
| Monday's attacks included four bombs in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 39, police officials and doctors told AFP news agency. Another two explosions near Baghdad killed five people, they added. | |
| No group has said it carried out the attacks, but tension between the Shia Muslim majority, which leads the government, and minority Sunnis has been growing since last year. | |
| Sunnis have accused the government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki of discriminating against them - something the government denies. | |
| Mr Maliki has vowed to make immediate changes to Iraq's security strategy, saying militants "will not be able to return us to the sectarian conflict". | |
| Estimates put the number of deaths this month at more than 450 - the second consecutive month during which more than 400 people have been killed. |