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Bomb attacks kill four people at Baghdad street markets

Published: 27 Jun 2015 - 04:23 pm | Last Updated: 12 Jan 2022 - 04:26 pm

 

In this file photo smoke can be seen rising from the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad in which eighteen civilians were killed when two bombs exploded at a busy market district in central Baghdad on January 30, 2015.

BAGHDAD: Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said.

In the Obeidi district of eastern Baghdad a bomb exploded near a crowded market, killing two people.

Another bomb went off near a crowded grocery market in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, the police and medics said.

Iraq faces multiple security challenges, including Islamic State insurgents who control a third of the country and a sectarian civil war.

Reuters