At least 19 killed in Baghdad bomb attacks

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Insurgents have killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens more in a series of bombings in Baghdad, including one in the Shiite district of Sadr City. Two bombs exploded in a market for motorcycles in central Baghdad's Bab al-Sheikh neighbourhood, killing 15 people and wounding another 70, a security official told AFP.

Sporadic automatic weapons fire subsequently broke out in the area, which lies just east of the Tigris river. In another attack, a bomb went off aboard a bus in Sadr City, the impoverished Shiite district in eastern Baghdad, killing four people, the official said Tuesday. Another 10 people were wounded in the attack. The district, which is the bastion of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's loyalists, is often targeted by Sunni insurgents....