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Deadly blasts rock Iraqi police

Deadly blasts rock Iraqi police

At least 29 people have been killed and 42 more wounded by bombers who attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Captain Ghalib al-Karkhi said the bombings in the mixed Shia-Sunni Baquba targeted the provincial headquarters, the Iraqi army and a hospital.
One attacker drove an explosives-packed car to the headquarters of a police rapid reaction force in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province.
A second suicide car bomb went off at a police checkpoint while the third went off at Baquba general hospital.
The attacks come in a tense run-up to a parliamentary election slated for March 7.
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Map of Iraq locating Baquba province
Al-Jazeera

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