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5 killed in two car bombs in central Iraq

Xinhua, April 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

A total of five people were killed and 18 others wounded in two car bomb explosions in and near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

A booby-trapped car detonated at a park near Yarmouk Hospital in western Baghdad, leaving three people killed and ten others wounded, along with destroying several nearby cars, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, another car bomb went off at the entrance of the town of Mahmoudiyah, some 30 km south of Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding eight others, the source said.

The security situation in Iraq has been drastically deteriorated since June last year, when bloody clashes broke out between Iraqi security forces and the IS. Endit