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Mahmudiyah car bomb kills 17 Iraqis

Mahmudiyah car bomb kills 17 Iraqis BAGHDAD, April 9 (KUNA) -- Seventeen Iraqis were killed and 26 others wounded when a car bomb was detonated near the southern Baghdad city of Mahmudiyah, Sunday, the US military in Iraq said in a statement Monday.
The incident occurred on a main Iraqi Highway in the vicinity of Al-Mahmudiyah Health Clinic and a local mosque.
US and Iraqi troops rushed to the site where they brought 17 of the wounded civilians to Forward Operating Base Mahmudiyah for medical care and evacuated eight of those to the 28th Combat Support Hospital via helicopter for further treatment.
The Iraqi police said yesterday that the explosion was a missile attack killing 15 and wounding another 30.(end) ahh.msa KUNA 090906 Apr 07NNNN