3 car bombs in quick succession kill 18, injure 50 in Iraq

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Source: CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in three marketplaces in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City Wednesday, killing at least 18 people and injuring at least 50, an official with Iraq’s Interior Ministry told CNN.

Eyewitnesses said the bombings caused chaos in the area, with people running through the streets in fear of further bombs. As the marketplaces were crowded, the number of casualties was expected to rise.

Two of the cars were parked close to each other and detonated nearly simultaneously, a second Interior Ministry official said.

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1. Update: Over 40 killed in twin car bombs in Baghdad-police

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LT569562.htm

Source: Reuters
* Two car bombs explode in capital, one being defused

* Residents of poor Shi'ite area say no army protection

* April toll rises after 150 die in two days last week

(Updates death toll, adds scene after blast, byline)

By Sattar Rahim

BAGHDAD, April 29 (Reuters) - At least 41 people were killed and 68 wounded on Wednesday when two car bombs ripped through a busy market in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, mowing down families as they crowded around a popular ice cream parlour, police said.

A third car bomb was discovered and was being defused, the police said. After the blasts, angry residents threw stones and empty bottles at Iraqi soldiers and accused them of failing to protect people in Sadr City, a sprawling, largely Shi'ite slum.

The blasts followed two days of suicide bombings last week in which 150 people died, stirring fears Iraq could descend into a new spiral of sectarian conflict just as it appeared to be emerging from six years of bloodshed.

Body parts lay scattered around the smoking wreck of a car after the explosions, while the wounded were piled into private cars, minibuses and on the back of a pick-up truck and rushed to hospital. Police vehicles cleared a way for the convoy.

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2. Update: 52 people killed in six car bombs within a four-hour period in Iraq, according to the countr

http://www.cnn.com/

52 people killed in six car bombs within a four-hour period in Iraq, according to the country's Interior Ministry.

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3. It's as if this news and those people never even existed

6 years of war crimes has numbed people to the point of absurdity.