EXTRA: Two bomb attacks kill one civilian, wound 14 in Iraq
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Baghdad - At least one civilian was killed and 14 wounded on Friday when two explosive devices went off in central Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital, media reports said. The Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency said the first bomb was detonated in front of a policeman's house in the Nabi Sheet area central Mosul. Few minutes later, another bomb exploded in the same area, killing a civilian and wounding 14.
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