Two car bombs kill 3, wound five near Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Mar 6 (Reuters) Two car bombs, one of them driven by a suicide bomber, killed three people, including two Iraqi soldiers, and wounded five in a town south of Baghdad today, police said.

The two blasts, about 10 minutes apart, took place in the town of Mahmudiya, some 40 km south of the capital. One of the car bombs targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint.

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