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            Second Suicide Bombing in Two Days Rocks Baghdad Suburb

   by VOA News

   At least eight people were killed and 11 more wounded Wednesday after a
   suicide bomber exploded his car at a police checkpoint north of
   Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, just a day after a similar deadly attack
   took place in the same district.

   The bomber reportedly slammed his car, which was loaded with
   explosives, into the checkpoint in northeastern al-Rashidiya district,
   a predominantly Shiite neighborhood. While no one immediately took
   credit for the attack, it bore the hallmark of other similar attacks
   carried out by the Islamic State in Iraq.

   In the attack Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed after a suicide
   car bomber blew himself up near a crowded fruit and vegetable market.
   Police were forced to shut down several major roads around Baghdad as a
   result of the attack.

   In two separate attacks last week, IS killed more than 300 people with
   suicide car bombs. In the first attack, a truck blew up in a crowded
   commercial area in another Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad called
   Karada. With 292 people killed, it was recorded as one of the deadliest
   attacks in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003. In another attack last
   Thursday, 37 people were killed during an attack on a Shiite shrine
   north of Baghdad.

   IS attacks have occurred with more frequency as of late, which prompted
   U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter earlier this week to commit 560 more
   U.S. troops to Iraq to help fight the terrorist group.

   Carter said the new American forces will arrive within the next few
   weeks, and will be primarily tasked with transforming an air base that
   was recaptured from ISIS earlier this month into a staging area for the
   battle to retake Mosul.
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