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BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks across Iraq have killed at least 16 people today.
The deadliest attacks struck Baghdad's predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora. Police say two bombs exploded on busy commercial streets this morning, killing four people. At night, three more bomb blasts in the same area killed five people and wounded 10.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts, though Shiite militants have retaliated in the past for killings by Sunni insurgent groups. The Sunni-led violence is part of a series of stepped-up attacks since last year aimed at undermining Iraq's Shiite-led government ahead of a crucial vote later this month.
Outside of Baghdad, police say a suicide bomber killed five soldiers and wounded eight at a checkpoint north of the capital. A roadside bomb killed two soldiers on patrol and wounded five people in another town north of Baghdad.
Health officials confirmed the casualty figures.
Iraq holds a crucial parliamentary election on April 30, its first since the 2011 U.S. troop pullout.
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