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BAGHDAD, FEB 25
A suicide bomber struck today outside a college campus in Baghdad, killing at least 22 people and injuring dozens as a string of other blasts and rocket attacks left bloodshed around the city.
Most of the victims near the College of Business Administration and Economics were students, police said. At least 31 people were injured.
The wave of attacks came a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki praised the progress of an ongoing US-Iraqi security operation seeking to cripple militant factions and sectarian killings in the capital.
The suicide attacker detonated a bomb-rigged belt near the main entrance to the college, where students were resuming mid-term exams after the two-day weekend in Iraq.
The school is located in a mostly Shiite district, but does not limit its enrollment to that group. It's part of Mustansiriyah University, which is located in another area of the city, and was the target of twin car bombs and a suicide blast last month that killed 70 people.
Earlier, two Katyusha rockets hit a Shiite enclave in southern Baghdad, killing at least two, and a bomb near the fortified Green Zone claimed two lives, police said.
The Green Zone houses the US and British embassies and key Iraqi government offices. The blast was about 100 metres from the Iranian Embassy, but authorities did not believe it was targeting the compound.
A separate car bombing in a Shiite district in central Baghdad killed at least one person and injured four, police said.
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