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Car bombs claim 50 lives

Two car bombs killed more than 50 people in Sunni Arab areas of Iraq yesterday, a sudden spasm of violence in places which had been comparatively quiet while battles raged in the Shi'ite south.

In one of the deadliest strikes in months, one car bomb killed 40 people and wounded 70 others outside a provincial government headquarters in Baquba, local capital of Diyala province north of Baghdad, police said.