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Two Baghdad car bombs kill 19, wound dozens


    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nineteen people were killed in two car bombs in Shi'ite parts of western Baghdad on Saturday night, police and medical officials said.

    One bomb exploded at a traffic roundabout in the neighbourhood of Kadhimiya, killing 11 people, three of them police officers, officials said. Another 27 were wounded.

    In the second attack, a car bomb exploded outside an ice cream shop in the neighbourhood of Shaoula, killing eight people and wounding 18, a police officer and hospital official said.

    (Reporting By Ned Parker, Raheem Salman; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)