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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Baghdad suicide bombers kill 26 AFP - 29 minutes ago Send IM Story Print BAGHDAD (AFP) - – Suicide bombers in two cars killed 26 people and wounded 53 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday when they drove down a crowded street and blew themselves up simultaneously, security officials said. The morning bombings, which came hot on the heels of attacks late on Saturday that killed seven people, underlined the dangers of a resurgence of violence in the face of a persistent political vacuum more than three months after a general election. The bombers targeted the Baghdad branch of the Trade Bank of Iraq, the conduit for much of the government's foreign exchange transactions and its dealings with investors. The bank is on a busy thoroughfare through the mainly Sunni Arab Mansur district that provides access from western Iraq to the fortified Green Zone government and embassy compound in the city centre. "The report of the bomb disposal team confirmed that the two attacks that happened in Mansur today were carried out by suicide bombers who drove the car bombs," the capital's operations command said. "Each car was loaded with 80 kilogrammes (176 pounds) of ammonium nitrate," the command said in a statement. "They were detonated simultaneously. They targeted the Trade Bank of Iraq." Five of the branch's guards were among the dead and six among the wounded, TBI chairman Hussein al-Uzri said, adding the "cowardly attack" would not prevent the bank opening for business as usual on Monday. "This attack on our headquarters in Baghdad... was an act of cowardice by malevolent forces who wish to undermine the progress that Iraq is steadily making towards stability, peace and economic prosperity for all its people," Uzri said in a statement. "However, this cowardly attack was a failure. The Trade Bank of Iraq, and Iraq itself, are undeterred," he said. "The work of building Iraqs economic strength -- which the Trade Bank of Iraq is doing so much, and very successfully, to support, and in which we are making significant progress year by year -- goes on uninterrupted, as does the work of the bank, which will be open for business tomorrow." The twin bombs marked the deadliest day in Iraq since May 10 when four bombs in the mainly Shiite central city of Hilla and other attacks killed more than 100 people -- the highest toll of this year. US and Iraqi officials had warned of the dangers of an upsurge of violence if negotiations on forming a new governing coalition dragged on too long, giving insurgent groups an opportunity to further destabilise the country. Three-and-a-half months after a general election which gave no single bloc an overall parliamentary majority, the two lists that won most seats are still bickering over who should be the next prime minister. Both former premier Iyad Allawi and incumbent Nuri al-Maliki insist that they are best placed to tackle the insecurity still rocking the country. Allawi, a secular Shiite whose Iraqiya list came out with most votes, sweeping Sunni Arab provinces where the anti-US insurgency has been strong, says acknowledgement of his right to lead the next government is essential if Sunnis are not to be further estranged from the political process. Maliki, who has made his political reputation out of taking a strong hand to Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias alike, argues that he needs to remain in power with full authority to tackle the mounting violence. On Saturday evening, three roadside bombs planted in Hurriya, a Shiite neighbourhood in the north of Baghdad, killed four people and wounded 16, a security official told AFP. Fire from a Katyusha multiple rocket launcher killed three people and wounded four in Al-Obeidi, an anarchic Shiite slum district in the far east of the capital beyond the sprawling Shiite bastion of Sadr City, an official said. And in the Zayouna neighbourhood of central Baghdad, police found the bodies of five women. A security official said they were believed to have been killed two or three weeks ago. There has been a spate of attacks by hardline Islamists against women accused of breaking the mores of their ultra-strict brand of the Muslim religion. Government figures showed 337 people were killed as a result of violence in May, the fourth time this year the overall death toll has been higher than in the corresponding month of 2009. 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