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Blasts Kill at Least 34 in Iraq

Day's death toll is one of highest in recent months

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 26, 2008 8:00 AM CDT
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(AP) – Three blasts killed at least 34 Iraqis today, most of them in a suicide car bombing that struck a group of police recruits, the AP reports. It was one of the highest daily casualty tolls in recent months. Two of the bombs went off in Diyala province, which has been the site of much of the recent violence and a stronghold of Sunni insurgents.

In one provincial town, a car bomb exploded where police recruits were gathered, killing 25 and wounding 40, police said. Elsewhere, a roadside bomb struck a van, killing five members of a Sunni family on the way to a religious shrine, an official said. And a bomb planted in a parked car killed four people and wounded six, including three policemen, during the morning rush hour in the city of Tikrit, a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency which has quieted in the past year.

An Iraqi police officer sleeps at a checkpoint Iraq's Diyala province Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.
An Iraqi police officer sleeps at a checkpoint Iraq's Diyala province Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
A U.S. army soldier patrols a street on the outskirts of Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.
A U.S. army soldier patrols a street on the outskirts of Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Iraqi security forces assist an injured civilian following a suicide bomb attack in Baqouba, Iraq's Diyala province, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008.
Iraqi security forces assist an injured civilian following a suicide bomb attack in Baqouba, Iraq's Diyala province, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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