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A car bomb has exploded in a Shia neighbourhood in western Baghdad, killing
at least 35 people and wounding 80 others, Iraqi police have said.
The blast was set off around noon on Sunday in the district of Bayaa near a
crowded market, police said.
The car bomb was the latest attack hitting the Iraqi capital's Shia
community and follows a raid by the US and Iraqi forces on the Shia district
of Sadr City.
Bystanders used blankets to carry the dead and wounded on to trucks. The
bomb tore off the fronts of shops and destroyed cars.
More bombs
Also on Sunday, a series of explosions killed at least a further 12 people.
A car bomb exploded near a bus stop a short distance from the municipalities
and public works ministry in Bayaa killing at least four people, ministry
sources said.
North of Baghdad two car bombers attacked police positions in Samarra,
killing at least eight people in apparently co-ordinated attacks in which
armed men also fired mortar bombs, police and army sources said.
Abdullah Jubara, the deputy governor of Salah al-Din province, said Abdul
Jalil Naji, Samarra's police commander, was killed in one of the attacks,
which took place at a police checkpoint.
Armed groups fighting the Shia-led government and 150,000 US soldiers in
Iraq have switched tactics and stepped up co-ordinated attacks against Iraqi
and US security bases.
Salah al-Din province has a Sunni majority.
Pre-dawn raid
Fighting broke out during the pre-dawn raid by US and Iraqi forces on Sadr
City in which at least six people were wounded. Several houses were bombed
out, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.
Aircraft flew over the Shia neighbourhood destroying four homes and reducing
one to a pile of rubble, police and witnesses confirmed.
Witnesses said at least one person had been killed and that the number of
injured was eight, while police described the attack as an "air strike".
Several cars were also charred and badly damaged.
One resident, Abu Hammad, said: "We were sleeping and we heard aircraft,
both helicopters and planes, flying over us very low and there was lots of
shooting so we lay down on the ground."
The raid appeared to be part of a series targeting members of the Mahdi Army
headed by Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist Shia cleric. The fighters have been
implicated in sectarian attacks on Sunnis.
The US military could not be reached for comment.
'Triangle of death'
A day earlier, south of the capital, in the so-called "triangle of death", a
bomb exploded in the town of Iskandiriya, wounding 10 people.
Police Lieutenant Karim al-Wael said two of the casualties were in a serious
condition.
Late on Saturday, Captain Salam Zankana, of the Kirkuk police, said that
three mortar shells crashed down on a southern neighbourhood of the northern
oil city killing one woman and wounding four others, among them a child.
US and Iraqi forces are carrying out raids in the town of Yathrib, in the
Sunni province of Salah al-Din, after the assassination on Saturday of
Jabbar al-Tamimi, a police Colonel.
"Al-Tamimi was visiting a water purification project in the al-Bujaili
district in Yathrib when he was attacked by gunmen and riddled with
bullets," a police officer, who requested anonymity, said.
Ten suspects have been arrested, he said.
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