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Bombs at markets, police kill 24 people in Iraq
April 30, 2014
Back-to-back bombs ripped through an outdoor market northeast of Baghdad today, the deadliest in separate attacks that officials said killed 24 people on the eve of the first nationwide elections since the 2011 withdrawal of US forces. 

The attacks are an apparent effort by the militants to discourage Iraqi voters from going to the polls tomorrow in the first nationwide balloting since the 2011 withdrawal of US forces.
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