Bombers kill 28 in Baghdad, Kirkuk
POSTED: 10:34 a.m. EST, January 17, 2007
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• NEW: Schools face "intimidation campaign," U.N. report says
• NEW: Car bomb kills at least 17, wounds 35 in Sadr City
• Death toll in Kirkuk blast rises to at least 10
• U.S. military reports two U.S. soldier deaths in Anbar province
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Explosions in the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Kirkuk claimed 28 lives Wednesday, a day after 70 people were killed in a massive car bomb attack on Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
The latest targets were the Kirkuk police station, where 10 people were killed, according to police, and the Shiite stronghold in Baghdad, Sadr City, where at least 17 people were killed, according to an Interior Ministry official.
In addition, a roadside bomb in central Baghdad killed a police officer on patrol and wounded two others, an Interior Ministry official said. (Watch how U.S. troops are handling the relentless cycle of violence Video)
In a grim statistic released Tuesday by the United Nations, more than 34,000 civilians were "violently killed" across Iraq in 2006, an average of 94 every day. The bimonthly report singled out sectarian violence as "a major cause for an ever-growing trend in displacement and migration of all Iraqis, as well as the targeting of various professional groups." (Full story)
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