Suicide bomber targets Baghdad bus, two dead


BAGHDAD, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two people and injured at least eight others on a bus in Baghdad on Thursday, police said. 

Security forces are braced for an increase in violence in Iraq ahead of next Thursday's elections for Iraq's first full- term parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein. 

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