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![Car bombings remain common despite the overall reduction in violence levels in Iraq [Reuters] Car bombings remain common despite the overall reduction in violence levels in Iraq [Reuters]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/Iraq/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/key-issue.jpg) | | Car bombings remain common despite the overall reduction in violence levels in Iraq [Reuters] | A bomb planted in a parked car has killed nine people and wounded 13 others after it exploded in a busy commercial street of Baghdad, police say.
The death toll could rise from the blast, which took place on Sunday in Bayaa, a neighbourhood in the south of the Iraqi capital, they said. In a separate attack, two soldiers were killed by sniper fire in Mansour district, General Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for Baghdad's security operations, told the Reuters news agency. Elsewhere in the country, a roadside bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol and wounded an army official. The blast occurred in a main street near the town of Sulaiman Pak, 160km northeast of Baghdad, police said. Five policemen and two civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said. In yet another incident, a roadside bomb wounded three policemen and one civilian when it exploded near a police patrol in Qahira district of northern Baghdad, police said.
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