At least 15 killed in Baghdad bomb attacks

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Insurgents have killed at least 15 people and wounded another 70 in twin bomb attacks in central Baghdad, an interior ministry official told AFP. The two bombs exploded in a market for motorcycles in central Baghdad's Bab al-Sheikh neighbourhood, the official said Tuesday. Sporadic automatic weapons fire subsequently broke out in the area, which lies just east of the Tigris river.

The attacks came as the United Nations released a report which said that more than 34,400 Iraqi civilians had died last year in violence across the country, an average of almost 100 per day. More than 36,000 others were wounded, the report said. "Extra-judicial executions, rampant and indiscriminate killings of civilians went virtually unchecked during the months of November and...