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Baghdad bomb toll rises to 35


    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from a parked car bomb near a popular restaurant in northwest Baghdad rose to 35 on Wednesday, and the number of wounded rose to 72, police said.

    The last large-scale bomb attack in Iraq was on April 29, in which 51 people were killed in twin car bomb attacks in the Shi'ite Sadr City district of Baghdad.

    (Writing by Mohammed Abbas: Editing by Matthew Jones)