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At least 202 people were killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad's district of Sadr City on Thursday, the deadliest attack in a single area since the Iraq invasion. The bombings followed the release of a UN report Wednesday that Iraq's civilian death toll reached a new monthly high of more than 3,700 in October. The following is a list of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since America occupied the country. 2006 November 23: At least 202 people are killed and 250 wounded in a string of car bombings in the Sadr City. August 13: A series of car bombings in Zafaraniyah district of southeastern Baghdad leaves 73 dead. April 7: Ninety people are killed when three suicide bombers, two of them disguised as women, blow themselves up as worshippers leave a popular Baghdad mosque. Feb 22: Gunmen bomb a revered Shiite shrine in the town of Samarra, triggering a wave of communal bloodshed that leaves hundreds dead. Jan 5: A suicide bomber kills 67 at a police recruitment centre in Ramadi, west of Baghdad while a suicide attack in the city of Karbala kills 44. 2005 Nov 18: Suicide attacks against two mosques in Khanaqin, northeast of Baghdad, kill 78. Sept 29: A triple car bombing claimed by the late leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leaves 99 dead in Balad, north of Baghdad. Sept 14: At least 128 people are killed as a suicide bomber targeting day labourers brings carnage to the Baghdad district of Kadhimiyah. July 16: A suicide bomber blows up a propane gas tanker in Al-Musayyib, south of the capital, killing 83 people. May 11: Bombers strike in three Iraqi cities, killing 84. March 10: Fifty-one Iraqis are killed in a suicide bombing in Mosul. Feb 28: At least 118 people are killed and scores more wounded when a suicide bombing hits the city of Hilla. 2004 Dec 19: Car bombs explode near Shiite shrines in Najaf and Karbala, killing at least 66 people and wounding more than 200. July 28: Seventy people are killed in a suicide car bombing in the flashpoint town of Baquba north of Baghdad. June 24: Gunmen said to be linked to Zarqawi unleash a wave of coordinated attacks across Iraq killing more than 100 people. April 21: Bomb attacks targeting police stations around the main southern city of Basra kill at least 74 people, mostly policemen and schoolchildren. March 2: Bomb attacks in Karbala and Baghdad kill more than 180 people in the deadliest bombings since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Feb 10: At least 55 people are killed in car bombing outside a police station in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad. Feb 1: At least 105 people are killed when twin suicide bombers blow themselves up at the headquarters of the two leading Kurdish political parties in Arbil. 2003 Aug 29: A car bomb kills 83 people, including leading Shiite politician Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, outside one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in Najaf.

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