Suicide bombers kill eight at Iraqi market: police

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BAGHDAD: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a market on Baghdad´s outskirts Monday, leaving eight people dead, a security official said, adding police killed three other assailants.

“Five suicide bombers attacked a market and shops in the Nahrawan area” east of the Iraqi capital, a police captain told AFP.

“The police killed three of them but the other two blew themselves up, killing eight civilians and wounding nine,” he said.

He added that two security personnel were also wounded in the blast in the district, 35 kilometres (20 miles) southeast of the Iraqi capital.