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A look at targets of Tuesday's Baghdad attacks

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By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 2, 2010; 3:29 PM

-- A look at the mostly Shiite Baghdad neighborhoods targeted Tuesday night in a series of bombings and mortar strikes that took place over the span of about an hour:

-Sadr City: 21 killed, 46 wounded by car bomb near a market in eastern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood.

-Al-Shaab: 4 killed, 15 wounded by car bomb near a popular cafe in mostly Shiite area in northeast Baghdad.

-Amin: 6 killed, 21 wounded when a motorcycle exploded in Shiite neighborhood in east Baghdad.

-Ur: 3 killed, 12 wounded in roadside bombing in northeast Shiite area.

-Kazimiyah: 4 killed, 9 wounded in roadside bomb in Shiite north Baghdad suburb.

-Husseiniyah: 7 killed, 22 wounded by car bomb at a popular market in north Baghdad suburb that is predominantly Shiite.

-Jihad: 3 killed, 12 wounded by bomb that hit a police patrol in southwest Baghdad area that has distinct Sunni-Shiite sections. Among the casualties, a policeman was killed and three other police were wounded.

-Amil: 1 killed, 2 wounded in roadside bombing in southwest Baghdad Shiite neighborhood.

-Shiite suburb of Azamiyah: 5 killed, 17 wounded by three mortar rounds that landed near the Shiite al-Jawadiya mosque.

-Rahmaniyah: 8 killed, 21 wounded in western Baghdad car bombing in Shiite neighborhood.

-Shiite enclave of Dora: 5 killed, 18 injured by car bomb that blew up in the main street of area in southern Baghdad.

-Ghazaliyah: 2 killed, 14 wounded by two mortar rounds that hit Sunni neighborhood in northwest Baghdad.

-Shula: 7 killed, 23 wounded by car bomb outside a restaurant in Shiite neighborhood in northwest Baghdad.

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Sources: All casualties were reported by Iraqi security officials and confirmed by hospital workers who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.


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