Scores die in Baghdad blasts
Baghdad has seen no let-up in insurgent attacks in recent weeks
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Monday, 22, Jan 2007 11:08
More than 70 people are reported to have died in the latest set of explosions to occur in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
The two near-simultaneous car bombs killed 74 people, while at least 100 others are believed to have been injured.
According to the AFP news agency, the bombs went off in the Haraj second-hand market area, a mainly Shia district, at about 12:00 local time (09:00 GMT).
A photographer for the agency at the scene said that improvised wooden market carts were used to take the numerous dead bodies away from the scene.
The blasts occurred on the day that 3,000 more US troops are being deployed in the city to boost security.
US president George Bush has promised to send 21,500 more soldiers to Iraq and the first of these were arriving in the country this morning after another deadly weekend.
Twenty-five American soldiers died in a series of incidents on Saturday, the highest US death toll in one day since January 2005.
Twelve US troops died in a helicopter crash, five were killed in the province of Anbar, another five died in Karbala and three others were killed in other attacks in the country.