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R/£ Spate of bomb attacks rips through Baghdad
November 25, 2008 Edition 2
BAGHDAD: At least 20 people have died in a suicide bombing close to the Green Zone here and in an explosion on a minibus.
Two more people have died in bomb attacks on police patrols here, and a third person in Bakuba.
In the first of the attacks yesterday, a bomb attached to a minibus used by the trade ministry to take employees to work exploded shortly before 8am.
Thirteen ministry employees died and three were wounded, an official said.
About 45 minutes later, a woman suicide bomber blew herself up as she stood in a queue waiting to be searched at a checkpoint near an entrance to the Green Zone. Seven people, two of them woman employees of Iraq's intelligence service, died and 13 were wounded.
Two civilians died and four people, two of them policemen, were wounded when a roadside bomb targeting a patrol exploded in the east of the city. In Bakuba, a policeman died when a bomb went off near his car.
Iraqi MPs are to vote tomorrow on a security pact with the United States that would allow its forces to remain in Iraq for up to three more years under strict Iraqi oversight. - Sapa-AP
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