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37 killed in Christmas bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraq

BAGHDAD: Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Christmas day, killing at least 37 people, officials said.

In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church during Christmas Mass in the capital's southern Dora neighbourhood, killing at least 26 people and wounding 38, a police officer said.

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