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Sun Sep 22, 2013, 05:46 AM Sep 2013

More than 60 killed in Iraq funeral bombing

At least 60 people have been killed at a funeral in the mainly Shia Muslim Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

A tent where mourners were gathered was hit by two explosions, one of them a suicide car bomb.

A third explosion followed as police, ambulances and firefighters gathered at the scene, according to one report.

Officials reported that women and children were among the dead and that more than 120 people had been injured.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24190728

Iraq has been in a state of civil war for months now.

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