Insurgents in Iraq killed at least 43 people and wounded 160 others in seven near simultaneous attacks Thursday shortly before the dusk-to-dawn curfew in the Iraqi capital, security officials said. Attacks in the predominantly Shiite area of the capital included two car bombs — one at a popular market and one on a street about 1.5 miles away. The area also was hit by four mortar rounds, two rockets, a roadside bomb and a bomb in a building, police said. The dead and wounded were taken to four hospitals, and it was not immediately clear how many casualties each attack had caused, police and hospital officials said. Insurgents, mainly Sunni extremists, often target markets to kill civilians who venture out to buy household goods before the dusk-to-dawn curfew begins. Earlier in the day, another 18 people were killed in a series of attacks, as the war-torn country's latest round of bloodletting claimed more than 250 lives in five chaotic days...
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