Bombings in Kirkuk and Baghdad Kill 20

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Source: Associated Press/NYT

BAGHDAD (AP) -- An explosion at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad killed at least eight worshippers Monday, the fourth anniversary of the start of the war, while a series of car bombs struck the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, killing 12, police said.

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The afternoon blast in Baghdad shattered windows and damaged a wall of the small green-domed mosque situated among shops in the central Shorja market area, where a truck bomb killed 137 people last month.

Police said the explosion was caused by a bomb placed in the corner behind the preacher's podium, leaving a crater and a pile of rubble on the floor, with a clock that was knocked off the wall. The preacher was among the 32 people wounded, police said.

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About an hour later, four blasts occurred in a 35-minute period in different areas of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 30.

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