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Submitted by ctv_en_2 on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 10:00
A car bomb killed 25 people on June 28 at a busy intersection in Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, while 20 beheaded bodies were found on a river bank south of the capital, Iraqi police said.

Another car bomb in Baghdad targeting motorists queuing for petrol killed five people, police said. Mortar bombs also killed four people in two separate neighborhoods in the city the same day.

 

In the southern city of Basra, a roadside bomb killed three British soldiers and wounded another, the British military said.

 

The latest attacks underscore the strength of militants in Iraq despite the arrival of 28,000 additional US troops. The unrelenting violence is pushing Iraq to the brink of all-out civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.

 

Tens of thousands of US and Iraqi troops are engaged in an offensive against al Qaeda in an attempt to take down its car bomb networks, which have killed and maimed thousands of Iraqis.

 

The blast came a day after Mr Gordon Brown replaced Mr Tony Blair as Britain's Prime Minister.

 

More than 150 British soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.

 

Reuters

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