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Barrage of blasts rock Baghdad
Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:52pm ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A barrage of about 20 blasts rocked districts across Baghdad on Tuesday night, police and witnesses said.

Reuters reporters counted more than 10 explosions in the space of a few minutes. The blasts began around 11 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT).

Police and witnesses reported explosions in the mainly Sunni areas of Doura, Sulaikh and Amiriya and Sadr City, a stronghold of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.

The U.S. military said it had no immediate information on the location of the blasts.

There were no immediate reports on any casualties.

Flares were fired into the night sky in the area of the Green Zone, the heavily fortified compound in central Baghdad that houses the Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy.

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Barrage of blasts rock Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A barrage of about 20 blasts rocked districts across Baghdad on Tuesday night, police and witnesses said.

Reuters reporters counted more than 10 explosions in the space of a few minutes. The blasts began around 11 p.m. (2000 GMT).

Police and witnesses reported explosions in the mainly Sunni areas of Doura, Sulaikh and Amiriya and Sadr City, a stronghold of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.

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Flares were fired into the night sky in the area of the Green Zone, the heavily fortified compound in central Baghdad that houses the Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy.

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update:

Fire breaks out at ammo dump at US base in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A fire broke out at an ammunition dump at a U.S. base in southern Baghdad on Tuesday, causing a series of explosions that rocked the capital, the U.S. military said in a statement.

"The explosions are from ammunition 'cooking off'," the military said, adding that it had no immediate reports of casualties.

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