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Iraq car bombs kill 10
AFP - Sunday, November 16
MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - - At least 10 people were killed and scores more injured in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq on Saturday, Iraqi police said.
A car bomb in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed seven people and wounded more than three dozen when it exploded near an auto dealership, police said.
However, a US military spokesman issued a statement putting the toll at 10 and saying another 20 were wounded in the bombing which took place near a car market and targeted civilians.
The town is half way between the Syrian border and the city of Mosul, which the US military considers to be the last remaining urban bastion of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Iraq has seen dramatic improvements in security over the past year as US and Iraqi forces have teamed up with local Sunni tribes to drive out insurgents and militias, but attacks are still common in some parts of the country.
In Baghdad, another three people were killed and 23 wounded when a car bomb exploded near the National Theatre, police said.
Another 10 people were wounded, including seven civilians, in two other bomb attacks, police said. One targeted a police patrol and another set alight a mostly-empty oil tanker.
In another roadside bomb attack outside the town of Fallujah -- once the epicentre of the Sunni insurgency -- six policemen, including one officer, were wounded, police Captain Jumaa Hussein Hamadi said.
In March 2007, the mostly Turkmen town of Tal Afar saw one of the deadliest single attacks in Iraq since the US-led invasion four years earlier when a suicide truck bomb killed more than 150 people.
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A police man stands with Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint in central Baghdad. At least seven people have been killed and more than two dozen wounded when a car bomb exploded near an auto dealership in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, Iraqi police have said.
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