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Bomb Blasts In Baghdad Kill At Least 30
February 28, 2006
Security forces in Baghdad (file photo) (epa)
Iraqi authorities say more than 50 others were wounded in the attacks.
Two of the bombs were reportedly in the east of the city, while the third was in the city center.
The blasts come amid heightened sectarian tensions following the bombing on 22 February of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. More than 200 people have died in reprisal attacks.
In other developments, two British soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the southern city of Amara. A third soldier was wounded.
In Tikrit, police say a bomb attack there damaged a small mosque in which the father of the deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is buried. There were no reports of injuries.
And south of the central Iraqi city of Ba'qubah, the Iraqi army has discovered nine bullet-ridden bodies. It was not clear when the victims, mostly men and boys, were killed.
(compiled from agency reports)