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    Baghdad Market Bomb Kills 13
    BBC News

    Thursday 13 April 2006

    Police in Iraq tell the BBC a car bomb has exploded in a market in a mainly Shia district of northern Baghdad. At least 13 people are reported killed.

    The attack comes a day after 25 were killed when a bomb went off in a busy market area near a Shia mosque in the town of Howaider, near Baghdad.

    Earlier the US military in Iraq said a roadside bomb had killed a US soldier south-west of Baghdad on Thursday.

    A day earlier, three US soldiers were killed in similar bombings, it said.

    A police spokesman said government employees have been targeted in several attacks in the capital:

  • Gunmen killed Mahmoud Ahmed, brother of Tareq al-Hashemi, who is widely expected to become the speaker of the new parliament.

  • A foreign ministry worker was kidnapped.

  • A health ministry employee was injured and her driver killed in an ambush.

  • A housing ministry worker was also wounded in a shooting.

    The police said several pedestrians were injured in roadside bomb blasts and shootings elsewhere in Baghdad.

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