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A mortar bomb attack and car bombing killed at least 17 people on Saturday across Iraq.
In a village close to the Iraqi city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, six people were killed when three mortar bombs dropped in the area.
According to police, five of the victims were of the same family, including a woman and a child.
In a Sunni populated district of Saydiya of Baghdad capital, a bomb exploded near a grocery market, killing two and injuring seven people.
A car bomb killed three people and wounded 12 more in the western Amriya district of Baghdad.
Two cars bombs went off at once in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, 170 km north of Baghdad, claiming four more lives and wounding nice people, police and medical sources said.
In Balad, 80 km north of the Iraqi capital, a bomb went off by a road and killed two policeman one patrol and wounded four others.
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Last year, about 9,000 people were killed, mostly civilians, in violent incidents across Iraq where Sunni islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda often target security forces, Shi’ites and Sunni tribes allied with the government.
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