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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16768973%255E1702,00.html

85 dead in triple car bombing
From correspondents in Baghdad, Iraq
30sep05

AT least 85 people were killed and more than 110 wounded overnight when three car bombs exploded within minutes of each other in the mainly Shiite central Iraqi town of Balad, police said.

Two pick-up trucks blew up in a central shopping street at 6.30pm and 6.40pm local time, with a third pick-up exploding in another neighbourhood 10 minutes later, local police Lieutenant-Colonel Adel Abdallah said.
A fourth car bomb exploded an hour later in northern Baghdad, targeting an army patrol, although no casualties were immediately reported.

Lt-Col Abdallah said at least 85 people were killed and more than 110 wounded in the blasts.