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Iraq
Separate attacks in Iraq kill four
2013-03-04
[Dawn] Three separate attacks in Shia-dominated areas on Sunday in central Iraq have killed at least four people and maimed 14, officials said.

The deadliest was in the Husseiniya area northeast of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, where three roadside kabooms went off simultaneously, killing three civilians, a police officer said. He said 11 others, including three coppers, were maimed.

Another police officer said a soldier was killed when a bomb attached to his car went kaboom! in the northern Utaifiya neighborhood of Storied Baghdad.

Two health officials confirmed the causality figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to release information to news hounds.

In Karbala, 90 kilometers south of Storied Baghdad, a jacket wallah set off his explosives-laden belt near the two revered Shia shrines and maimed three people, Gov Amal-Din al-Hir said.

Violence has ebbed across Iraq in recent years, but forces of Evil frequently attack security forces and civilians in an attempt to undermine the country's Shiite-led government.
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