Bombs mar Iraqi soccer celebrations

Gunfire erupted across Baghdad and Iraqis danced in the streets yesterday after their soccer team's historic Asian Cup win, but two suicide car bombs marred the war-ravaged nation's rare moment of unity. Police said a suicide car bomb exploded near a...

Gunfire erupted across Baghdad and Iraqis danced in the streets yesterday after their soccer team's historic Asian Cup win, but two suicide car bombs marred the war-ravaged nation's rare moment of unity.

Police said a suicide car bomb exploded near a crowd of jubilant Iraqis, killing 30 and wounding 75 in Baghdad's Mansour area.

Soon after, another suicide attack at an army checkpoint in east Baghdad killed another 20 people and wounded 60, many of them soccer fans celebrating nearby, police said.

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