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Summary
At least 36 people were killed while 140 were injured in twin car bombs. The explosions were apparently coordinated series of attacks targeting security forces. In the deadliest attack, two explosives-packed vehicles detonated minutes apart in the car park of a textiles factory in the central city of Hilla south of Baghdad.Shortly afterwards, five more explosions took place killing at least 50 people. The capital Baghdad was hit by a spate of shootings with automatic weapons against six police or army checkpoints in the east and west of the city, accounting for seven of the dead, the interior ministry official said. Two other policemen died in three bombings in south and west Baghdad.
