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2 dead, 18 hurt in Baghdad car bombing

Xinhua, April 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least two people were killed and 18 others wounded in a car bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday, security sources said.

A booby-trapped car detonated near a restaurant in Talbiyah district in eastern Baghdad, leaving two people killed and 18 wounded, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile in Diyala province, Iraqi authorities unearthed bodies of 11 people at a mass grave near an army base outside the town of Saadiyah, some 130 km northeast of Baghdad, a provincial security source told Xinhua.

The bodies believed to be people who were kidnapped and killed earlier by the IS militants when they seized the areas several months ago, the source said.

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