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At least 11 killed in Iraq suicide car bombing
Gulf-Middle East,
Sat, 15 Nov 2008
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Bagdhad, Nov 15 (Xinhua) At least 11 people were killed and 36 injured in a suicide car bombing at a marketplace in Iraq's Nineveh province Saturday, the police said.
The blast took place when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car near a busy market in Tal Afar, some 70 km west of provincial capital Mosul, a police said on condition of anonymity.
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Nineveh province, and its capital Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, is said to be one of the last strongholds of Al Qaeda insurgents in the war-torn country.
The province has been the scene of a major security crackdown by US troops and Iraqi security forces, which was aimed at uprooting Al Qaeda militants and other anti-US insurgent groups.
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