BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents in Iraq launched a string of bombings
Wednesday in Baghdad and the nearby provinces of Diyala and Babil, killing
at least 47 people and wounding more than 100 others.
The U.S. military on Wednesday also reported the death of a U.S. Marine,
killed in combat Tuesday in Anbar province, west of the capital.
Since the start of the war in 2003, there have been 2,629 U.S. military
fatalities in Iraq. Seven American civilian contractors of the military also
have died in the conflict.
In Baghdad, at least 24 Iraqis were killed and 45 more were wounded
Wednesday morning when a bomb ripped through Shurja, the city's largest
market, Baghdad emergency police said.
An hour later, a car bomb exploded near a fuel station in central Baghdad,
killing two and wounding 15 others -- including five police officers,
emergency officials said.
A second bomb in the same area near Andalus Square detonated minutes later
as rescue workers arrived to assist the wounded.
In Hilla, at least 12 people were killed and 38 wounded when an
explosives-rigged bicycle exploded Wednesday morning outside an Iraqi army
recruitment center, police said.
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