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Police: 15 killed in Baghdad car bombings
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-23 14:58

Two car bombs killed at least 15 people and injured 28 when they exploded just after dawn Thursday in central Baghdad, police said.

A injured man sits alone in the rubble at the site of explosions in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, June 23, 2005. At least two car bombs exploded just after dawn Thursday in Baghdad's middle-class Karada area, a central shopping district.
A injured man sits alone in the rubble at the site of explosions in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, June 23, 2005. At least two car bombs exploded just after dawn Thursday in Baghdad's middle-class Karada area, a central shopping district. [AP]
The twin explosions took place nearly simultaneously in a predominantly Shiite area that's a popular shopping district, police Lt. Col. Salman Abdul Karim and officer Ahmed Hatam Al-Sharie said.



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