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At Least 32 Killed In Baghdad, Westerners Kidnapped


(RFE/RL) May 29, 2007 -- Iraqi police say two separate car bomb attacks today killed at least 32 people and wounded about 40 in Baghdad.

In one attack, at least 22 people have been killed in central Baghdad. In a second blast, at least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded in southwestern Baghdad.

Meanwhile, witnesses were quoted as saying gunmen wearing police uniforms have abducted at least three Western lecturers from a Finance Ministry building in central Baghdad.

(Reuters, AFP, AP)

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