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Six bombs rocked Baghdad killing at least 35 people Tuesday, the second time the capital has come under attack in three days, fuelling fears insurgents are making a return due to a political impasse. The explosions destroyed residential buildings in mostly Shiite neighbourhoods, with Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim Atta saying four of the bombs detonated inside the buildings. Six bomb attacks in several neighbourhoods of Baghdad occurred, and seven buildings collapsed, an interior ministry official told. The official added that 35 people were killed and 140 wounded, but several victims are thought to be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings. Ambulance sirens were heard across the city as emergency service workers rushed to the scenes of the blasts, and a large plume of smoke rose from near a destroyed building in the neighbourhood of Allawi, central Baghdad. The building housed several apartments with shopfronts on its ground floor. Dozens of passersby gathered at the site of the blast, close to a secondary school, to sort through the rubble in a bid to rescue survivors as military helicopters flew overhead. Along with the Allawi blast, which destroyed two buildings, two bombs struck Shurta Rabiyah, west Baghdad, while at least one detonated in Chikouk, which houses a camp for internally-displaced persons in the north of the capital. Bombs also hit Shuala, north Baghdad, and Al-Amil in the south.
