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FOUR NEAR SIMULTANEOUS CAR BOMBS TARGET IRAQ CHURCHES: POLICE.

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(From ONASA News Agency)

BAGHDAD, Aug 1 (ONASA - AFP) - At least four car bombs exploded in quick succession outside churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, in an apparently targeted assault on Iraq's influential Christian minority, police said. The first car was detonated by a suicide bomber near an Armenian church in Baghdad's upmarket district of Karada, said policeman Haidar Abdul Hussein. Minutes later, a second car bomb exploded near a Catholic Syriac church. Thick black smoke billowed in the sky above Karada, clearly visible for miles, as ambulances screamed through the streets and firemen battled to contain the blaze. Officials at the Ibn al-Nafeez hospital said 15 people had been admitted ...

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