BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs killed at least 31 people at street markets in Iraq on Friday, police and medics said, as sectarian violence grows ahead of provincial elections in April.
Two car bombs were detonated simultaneously in a Friday street market selling birds and other pets in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya in Baghdad, killing at least 16 people and wounding another 44, police and hospital sources said.
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