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| Iraq car bombings: Attacks hit mainly Shia cities | Iraq car bombings: Attacks hit mainly Shia cities |
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| Twenty people have been killed in a wave of car bombings across central and southern Iraq, police and medics say. | Twenty people have been killed in a wave of car bombings across central and southern Iraq, police and medics say. |
| The attacks took place in areas with a high concentration of Shia Muslims - Kut, Aziziya, Mahmoudiya, Nasiriya and Basra. | The attacks took place in areas with a high concentration of Shia Muslims - Kut, Aziziya, Mahmoudiya, Nasiriya and Basra. |
| Iraq has recently seen an upturn in violence amid fears of a return to the levels of sectarian violence that hit the country in 2006 and 2007. | Iraq has recently seen an upturn in violence amid fears of a return to the levels of sectarian violence that hit the country in 2006 and 2007. |
| There is rising discontent among the country's Sunni Arab communities. | There is rising discontent among the country's Sunni Arab communities. |
| According to the Associated Press news agency, police said the deadliest blasts took place in and near the central city of Kut, where two parked car bombs targeted an industrial area and a gathering of construction workers. | |
| No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. |