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Death toll rises in Najaf bombing, medics say
Jan 15, 2010, 8:52 GMT
Baghdad - At least 27 people were killed and 111 injured in a series of explosions that hit the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday, medics said on Friday as they updated the death toll.
Three homemade bomb blasts rocked Najaf, home to some of Shiite Islam's highest educational institutions and shrines, within minutes of each other on Thursday.
Two of the blasts targeted a market located in a street leading to Imam Ali shrine, an important Shiite Muslim shrine.
The third was a car bomb nearby that detonated after a while when more people gathered in the scene, sources said.
On Thursday, police sources said that at least 14 people were killed and dozens injured in the worst attacks in weeks, which shattered a brief period of relative calm.
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