 At least five people have been killed and 23 wounded in two explosions in central Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. The cause of the explosions could not be confirmed, though some reports said the first was a car bomb and the second, very soon afterwards, a mortar. At least one of the attacks happened near a minibus stop, where passengers were waiting to travel to Shia areas of the city, officials said. The blasts sent a column of thick black smoke into the sky, witnesses said. "These people were just sitting here. What did they do to deserve this?" said a man called Hussein, who said he saw a coffee shop wrecked by one blast, leaving tables and chairs shattered and a pool of blood. The attacks came after a US military spokesman warned on Thursday that violence in Iraq might increase over the coming weeks, following a lull around the 15 December election. ...
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