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Bombs, mortar fire kill 14 people in Baghdad

By REUTERS

JANUARY 18, 2014 21:24

BAGHDAD - Mortar fire, car bombs and gunfire killed at least 14 people and wounded 55 in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said.

After a relatively calm day, a series of explosions shook the Iraqi capital in the evening as unidentified assailants set off at least four car bombs and fired several mortar rounds.

Armed men also attacked a juvenile prison, killing a guard, wounding four and releasing 20 inmates, police said.

In Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, gunmen badly wounded a correspondent of the opposition Sharqiya TV channel. There was no word on the motive for the attack.

Helicopters hovered over some areas of Baghdad after the blasts as ambulance sirens wailed and security forces closed some roads, residents said.

Two years after US troops left Iraq, violence has climbed back to its highest levels since the Sunni-Shi'ite bloodletting of 2006-2007, when tens of thousands of people were killed.

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