Five dead in Baghdad double bombing

Five people were killed and 17 injured on Thursday morning when two bombs went off in a market in the mainly Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

Five people were killed and 17 injured on Thursday morning when two bombs went off in a market in the mainly Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

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The attack took place at around 7:30 am (0430 GMT), the sources said, a day after two car bombs went off within minutes of each other in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing 12 and injuring dozens.

Both incidents followed a pullback of US troops from Iraqi cities on June 30, putting security on the nation’s streets back into the hands of Iraqi security forces.