Two bombs blast Baghdad market

Monday, May 22, 2006, 12:48 [IST]

Baghdad, May 22 : Two bombs blasted a Baghdad market today causing an as yet unknown number of casualties, police sources said.

A car bomb and another bomb, possibly a suicide attack, struck the crowed area in the New Baghdad district in the mainly Shi'ite east of the capital.

Reuters

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Monday, May 22, 2006,12:49 [IST]

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Monday, May 22, 2006,12:49 [IST]

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Monday, May 22, 2006,12:50 [IST]

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