Baghdad bomb toll rises to 35 killed, 72 wounded

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BAGHDAD,0 (Reuters) – The death toll from a parked car  bomb near a popular restaurant in northwest Baghdad rose to 35  yesterday, and the number of wounded rose to 72, police said.

The last large-scale bomb attack in Iraq was on April 29, in  which 51 people were killed in twin car bomb attacks in the  Shi’ite Sadr City district of Baghdad.

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