Iraq bombings leave seven dead as elections loom

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/WxI4CPxjlZ1MgR4ljUC4AQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPMideastEN/ac46e08e30c2f80364af5b1c6c1804f58cbf7730.jpg (http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/iraq-bombings-leave-seven-dead-elections-loom-135248735.html)Attacks in Baghdad and across central Iraq, including five car bombs, killed at least seven people on Tuesday amid a surge in violence, as parliamentary elections loom next month. The blasts, which also left more than 30 people wounded, come with Iraq suffering its worst level of violence since 2008, when the country was emerging from brutal sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The surge in unrest has been driven principally by discontent among Iraq's Sunni Arab mi**rity and by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, and has killed more than 2,000 people already this year, according to an AFP tally. Violence in Iraq has reached a level **t seen since sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and 2007 left tens of thousands of people dead.




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