#Iraq bombings kill eight, wound nine
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Bombings north of Baghdad killed eight people on Tuesday, police and a doctor said, as Iraq struggles to regain ground overrun in a major jihadi-led offensive. In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint south of Samarra, killing five people, among them three police, and wounding seven others, including four police. And a roadside bomb killed three federal police and wounded two more west of Samarra, a sensitive city home to a revered Shia shrine that was bombed in 2006. read more