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BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers killed at least 19 people in Iraq on Thursday in separate attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk, security officials said.

In the latest attack, a suicide bomber struck at a crowded market in the south Baghdad district of Doura, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others, police said, adding that three US soldiers were also killed.

The US military could not immediately confirm this.

Earlier on Thursday, a bomber triggered a vest packed with explosives as Sunni anti-insurgent militiamen queued to be paid in Kirkuk, killing seven people, the army and police said.

The blasts come hours after a car bomb killed 40 civilians and wounded 82 others in Baghdad's Shula district late on Wednesday, police said, revising higher earlier figures of 35 killed and 72 wounded.

Source : dawn.com/wps/wcm