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Summary At least 14 people were killed and 57 wounded in twin car bombs in Iraq on Tuesday.
Twin car bombs in Baghdad killed 12 people and wounded at least 27 others on Tuesday, while another attack west of the capital left two people dead, security and medical officials said.The latest violence brings the number of people killed in attacks across Iraq in July to at least 271, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources.An interior ministry official said the twin blasts in Baghdads central Karrada area killed 12 people and wounded 27.The official said the first attack was by a suicide car bomber who blew up a vehicle at the rear of the police major crimes headquarters.A medical official put the toll at 19 killed, including five police, and 50 wounded, among them 10 police.The explosions could be heard around a kilometre away.One of the blasts destroyed the entire front of a building and multiple cars, shattered shop windows and scattered debris across the street.Emergency vehicles and security forces quickly descended on the scene of the blast.Separately, two people were killed and three wounded by a car bomb north of Fallujah, which lies to the west of Baghdad, a major in the Anbar police and doctor Assem al-Hamdani of Fallujah Hospital said.The attacks came a day after gunmen shot dead a television presenter and wounded his mother, wife and four-month-old baby boy, according to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory media rights group and a police officer.
