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Separate bombings kill 34 in Iraq; worst attack hits police recruits, killing 35 |
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Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
A member of the Iraqi National Police gestures to others at the scene of a blast, after a car bomb struck Shiite pilgrims boarding minibuses in the mainly Shiite district of Shaab in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Karim Kadim
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BAGHDAD - At least 34 people have been killed in three separate bomb attacks in Iraq, most of them in a suicide attack targeting police recruits.
Police say 25 people were killed and 40 wounded Tuesday in the attack on the police recruits in Jalula, 130 kilometres northeast of Baghdad. Col. Ahmed Mahmoud Khalifa, the local police chief, says the bomber approached a building where the recruits were assembling and detonted the bomb after being stopped by guards.
Elsewhere, five people died when a roadside bomb hit a civilian van near the town of Mandali, in Diyala province.
And a four people died and six were wounded, including three policemen, when a bomb planted in a parked car exploded during morning rush hour in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad.
Tikrit is Saddam Hussein's hometown and has been a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency since the 2003 ouster of the late Iraqi leader. But it has enjoyed relative quiet since violence levels significantly dropped over the past year in much of Iraq.
Overall, officials says Tuesday's attacks have produced one of the highest daily casualty tolls in Iraq in recent months.
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