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22 die, 44 injured in suicide bomb attack near BaghdadAFP BAGHDAD--A suicide bomber blew himself up near a group of anti-al-Qaida fighters as they were receiving salaries north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 22 people, the second bloody attack to hit Iraq in as many days.
February 5, 2013, 12:14 am TWN The blast, which also wounded at least 44 people, came soon after officials raised the salaries of the Sunni militiamen in a bid to placate weeks of anti-government demonstrations in mostly Sunni areas of the country. It also comes just a day after a coordinated assault on a police headquarters in a disputed city in the north killed 30 people amid a spike in violence nationwide.
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