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Wed 04 Apr 2010Baghdad blasts kill 49 people in eight locations
EIGHT EXPLOSIONS yesterday brought down seven buildings in three Baghdad neighbourhoods and devastated a popular restaurant and a market, killing at least 49 people and wounding 160.
While some of the devices were delivered by vehicles, others had been planted in shops and flats rented by perpetrators. The bombers targeted mainly Shia residential areas where the populace is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose faction took 40 of the 70 seats in the 325-member assembly won by the Shia fundamentalist Iraqi National Alliance coalition in the March 7th parliamentary election.
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