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Huge Car Bomb Kills 40 In Eastern Iraq

Posted Apr 15, 08 6:27 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – A car bomb ripped through the Iraqi city of Baquba today, leaving at least 40 people dead and more than 70 injured, Reuters reports. The bomb went off near midday outside a restaurant that faces the city's main courthouse. Only a short while later a second bomb went off in the city of Ramadi, killing another 13 people.

Baquba, capital of Iraq's multi-ethnic Diyala province, is one of the key battlegrounds in the American and Iraqi armies' struggle against al-Qaeda in Iraq insurgents. With a shortage of ambulances, eyewitnesses reported that charred bodies remained inside cars at the scene of the blast.

Sources: Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP

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The wife of Ra'ad Hussein cries over his body at a morgue in Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, March 16, 2008. A car bomb in that city left dozens dead.   (AP Photo)
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