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Baghdad Bombings
Officials say 46 dead, 204 wounded throughout a series of 6 car bombs.

  On Thursday 9th March, two weeks ago, there were 6 car bomb attacks throughout the Iraqi capitol. The total number dead after the separate attacks was 46 say Iraqi officials, about 10 of the dead were members of the Iraqi police and a further 35 were children.
  The most lethal attack was outside the entrance of the anti-terrorism headquarters in central Baghdad, where at least 10 Iraqi police were killed and another 22, mainly police, were injured. An unnamed witness claims to have seen a driver leaving a car and remotely detonating the car from a safe distance. The driver escaped unscathed.
  Earlier in the day, in another attack, at least 3 people died. Later, a further 2 civilians were injured. A witness, that did not want to be named, saw many innocent bystanders torn to pieces in 1 of the 6 horrific bombings.