At least 40 killed in explosions in northern Iraq

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At least 40 killed in explosions in northern Iraq
Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A series of bomb attacks has struck northern Iraq, highlighting instability in a region that U.S. military officials say is one of the last Sunni insurgent strongholds in the country.

In the worst attack, at least 40 people were reported killed in a car bomb attack in the Diyala province capital of Baqouba. Iraqi police officials said at least 70 others were wounded in the attack, which hit outside the provincial government offices in the city.

The Associated Press reported it was the deadliest bombing in Iraq since March 6 when a twin bombing killed 68 people in a crowded shopping district in the central Baghdad district of Karradah.

Diyala province has been an area of continuing violence; U.S. military officials have said they believe Sunni insurgents were pushed there after offensives in Anbar and Baghdad provinces.

Three buses were destroyed and 10 local shops were damaged, the military said.


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