A car bomb killed three people and wounded 20 others in Baghdad yesterday, and a roadside bomb elsewhere in the Iraqi capital bomb wounded two more people, an interior ministry official said.

The car bomb exploded in the Jihad area of southern Baghdad at about 8.30 p.m. (1730 GMT), and the roadside bomb went off in the Adhamiyah district in the north of the city some 15 minutes later, he said.

The violence comes after Al-Qaeda’s front group in Iraq threatened to launch a campaign of 100 attacks, starting in mid-August, to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden in a US special forces raid in Pakistan in May.

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