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20 civilians killed in Baghdad serial bombings

None | ByPress Trust of India, Baghdad
Aug 14, 2006 04:09 AM IST

Insurgent triggered a series of blasts in a crowded Baghdad market and killed at least 20 civilians.

Insurgent bombers sent a deadly response to a rash of successes by Iraqi security forces on Sunday, when they triggered a series of blasts in a crowded Baghdad market and killed at least 20 civilians.

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Earlier, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government had announced the arrest of a 16-strong gang accused of launching car bomb attacks in the capital and plotting to kill or kidnap members of the premier's own family.

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Maliki's security forces and their US allies also stormed the health ministry to seize guards employed there that had been accused of kidnap, and the US-led coalition announced the arrest of a "key terrorist cell leader".

But before the authorities could savour their successes, bombers struck again, demolishing two buildings in a complex string of rocket and bomb attacks in a mixed area of Baghdad populated by Sunnis, Shiites and Christians.

Defence and interior ministry officials said the attack on the Al-Qubyasi market - which killed at least 20 people and wounded 75 others - used almost every weapon in the insurgent's arsenal.

The carnage began when a Katyusha rocket brought down a four-storey building. Then a suicide car bomber set off his explosives as bystanders rushed to rescue those trapped in the rubble, a witness said.

This was followed by two roadside bombs - one of which brought down a second building while the other wounded three police - and a second suicide attack by a man on an explosives-laden motorcycle, security sources said.

A medical official said from the scene that the death toll could rise.

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