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Blasts in Baghdad kill 15, wound 29

BAGHDAD – Bombs exploded at a bus station and a small market in Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 29 others Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.

A bomb hidden under a car exploded at a bus depot in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Mashtal on the capital's east side, killing 11 people, including two women. Twenty-one others were wounded in the attack, authorities said.

In the northern Shiite-dominated district of Qahira, four people were killed and eight others injured when a roadside bomb exploded near a market place, police said.

Also Tuesday, one person died when a roadside bomb targeted the convoy in central Baghdad of a Shiite government official and former member of the Iraqi Governing Council.

Ahmed Shiyaa al-Barak, who currently serves as the head of a government real estate commission, escaped the attack without injury. Five of his guards and four bystanders were injured in the bombing, police said.

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