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BOMBINGS, BLOOD IN BAGHDAD

An Iraqi man throws water to douse a fire in his shop following a car bomb explosion today outside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. Two separate car bomb explosions in the capital killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens, many of them children, while another 11 bodies were found throughout Iraq in the continuing string of shadowy sectarian slayings. In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber struck at the Interior Ministry Major Crimes unit in Baghdad's central Karradah district, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 35, police said.

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