Insurgents killed at least 61 Iraqis on Thursday, including 14 in a car bomb attack on a popular Baghdad market, as the government prepared to take full command of its own military. At least 43 were killed when a series of seven rocket and bomb attacks were launched almost simultaneously against Shiite and Christian districts of Baghdad shortly before the nightly curfew, security officials said. A car bomb went off in the southern neighbourhood of Al-Amin, killing 14 people and wounding 38, including six women, a medic at Al-Kindi hospital said. Sunni extremists often target markets to kill civilians who venture out to buy household goods before the dusk-to-dawn curfew begins. Six more explosive devices, including rockets, detonated in three areas, of which two were in the Shiite bastion of Sadr City, the security official said. At least 29 people were killed in these attacks ...
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