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Bombings across Iraq kill 46

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SECURITY DRIVE: A U.S. soldier grabs a garage mechanic while other mechanics lie prone before being searched by the soldiers whose patrol came under small-arms fire in the area earlier during a raid, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday.

BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers attacked five different locations in Iraq on Monday, killing 46 persons and wounding more than 100, police and politicians said.

Two parked car bombs also exploded outside the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, killing two civilians, and a drive-by shooting wounded two guards at Tunisia's embassy in the capital, police said.

The deadliest of the suicide attacks occurred at about 2:30 p.m. on a highway near Ramadi, 115 km west of Baghdad, killing at least 19 persons and wounding 35, said Ramadi police Maj. Fuad al-Asafia. U.S. troops raced to the scene, found a pickup truck parked nearby that was loaded with explosives and chlorine powder, and destroyed it in a controlled explosion, Maj. Asafia said. About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomb targeting a police checkpoint exploded in Ramadi at 1:15 p.m., wounding three policemen and four civilians, including a child, said police Lt. Col. Jabbar Rashid al- Dulaimi.

Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, has long been a magnet for Sunni insurgents and a lawless haven for al-Qaida militants, but the U.S. military recently reported progress in securing and calming the city.

Monday's first suicide car bomb attack occurred near the northern city of Mosul when a man detonated his car in front of an office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani, leader of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq. — AP

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