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| 21 killed in series of attacks in central Iraqi capital | |
| 2013-03-14 | |
Up to 21 people were killed and some 50 wounded in a series of car bombings and shootings in central the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.
The attacks took place around 1:00 a.m. local time (1000 GMT) within five minutes when gunmen blew up three car bombs and another believed to be a suicide bombing near some government buildings in downtown the capital, the source said. One of the car bombs was close to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and another went off outside the nearby building of the Telecommunication institute in Alawi district, while the third car bomb ripped through the area near the Ministry of Culture, a few hundred meters away from the Ministry of Justice in the district of a-Salhiyah, the source added. The car bombings were apparently made to distort the attention of the security forces to pave the way for gunmen with a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest to enter the Justice Ministry building, but the Iraqi security forces fought them back, the source said. The suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the Justice Ministry, when the soldiers opened fire on him, while the other attackers managed to enter the four-story building, he said. | |
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