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Baghdad bomb blast 'kills three' Deadly car bomb blasts in Baghdad
(about 7 hours later)
A bomb has exploded in Baghdad killing at least three people and injuring about 15 others. At least four people have been killed in two car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The device went off at about 0720 GMT (1115 local) near Tahrir Square in the centre of Iraq's capital, police said. One went off early on Sunday near Tahrir Square, a busy shopping area in the centre of the city. It killed at least three people and injured 15.
The blast comes days after Iraqi health ministry figures suggested a major new security operation in Baghdad had not diminished violence. In another part of Baghdad, a bomb near a police station killed one officer and wounded several other people.
On Friday officials said about 1,500 people were killed in attacks there last month, higher than first thought. The blasts come days after figures suggested a new security operation in Baghdad had not diminished violence.
On Friday the Iraqi health ministry said its final count for violent deaths in Baghdad in August stood at 1,536.
That was nearly three times the ministry's earlier estimate. Correspondents say this indicates a nearly undiminished level of sectarian and insurgent killings.
The health ministry's figures are compiled from reports by hospitals and mortuaries in Baghdad area.
Last month the US military spokesman in Iraq, Maj Gen William Caldwell, said the rate of violent deaths in Baghdad had fallen significantly from July to August.