Iraq, Back-to-Back Explosion···57 Killed

Iraqi armored vehicles partol around one of the blast sites in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, on Dec. 22, 2011.

The death toll from spate of bomb attacks which ripped through Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Thursday morning rose to 57 and 176 people wounded, a Health Ministry source said. <Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Ning>

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