Car bombings kill 75 in Baghdad

At least 75 people were killed and 160 wounded in a pair of nearly simultaneous car bombings in central Baghdad's Bab al-Sharqi district, an Interior Ministry official said Monday.

"Body parts everywhere, many bodies charred, it was horrible," the official said. The midday bombings targeted civilians in a second-hand clothing market, the site of several attacks in the past.

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