Two Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill 68 in Iraq…
BAGHDAD, April 23 (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers wearing vests stuffed with explosives blew themselves up in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, killing almost 70 people, many of them Iranian pilgrims, police said.
The blasts occurred as apprehension grows in Iraq ahead of a pullout by U.S. troops from city centres in June, and after warnings from officials that insurgent groups may try to take advantage of that to launch attacks.
A national election due at the end of the year also threatens a resurgence in violence just as the bloodshed of the past six years appeared to be receding. The blast in central Baghdad took place as a group of Iraqi national police were distributing relief supplies to families driven from their homes during the sectarian slaughter and insurgency unleashed by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Fifty people were wounded and at least five children were among the dead, police said.
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