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Bombings in Baghdad leave 70 dead, 100 wounded

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Bombings in Baghdad leaves 70 dead, 100 wounded
The Iraqi government is currently facing serious pressure after at least 70 people were killed and over 100 people left injured following a series of bomb attacks that hit the country’s capital of Baghdad.
Reports say the attacks were mainly carried out in Shia neighbourhoods, according to police and medical sources as a wave of violence continues unabated in the Iraqi capital.
In separate attacks, a suicide bombing on Tuesday in a marketplace in the northern, mainly Shia district of al-Shaab killed 38 people and wounded over 70, while a car bomb in the nearby Sadr City neighbourhood left at least 19 more dead and 17 wounded.
Moments after the deadly attacks, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group claimed responsibility of the al-Shaab attack, which it said was carried out by a man identified as Abu Khattab al-Iraqi.
The bomber threw hand grenades and then detonated a suicide belt in a coordinated attacks, it said.
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