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Baghdad bomb fatalities pass 150

Baghdad bomb fatalities pass 150

Iraqi officials have raised the death toll from Sunday's bombings in Baghdad to 155 and they say another 500 people were wounded in the explosions.The co-ordinated attacks, near the justice and local government ministries and the provincial government HQ, were Baghdad's bloodiest since April 2007.Suicide bombers detonated two vehicles, a lorry at a busy junction near the two ministries and a car in a parking bay. Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

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