Bomb targets Baghdad workers - police

BAGHDAD, May 24 (Reuters) A bomb exploded today close to a crowd of Iraqi workers gathered to seek day labouring jobs in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad, wounding a number of people, police sources said.

The blast in the Kadhimiya area, in the north of the capital, was the second such attack in the past few days that has targeted crowds of mainly Shi'ite men looking for work.

Police said it did not appear as if the blast had caused any deaths.

It came a day after three bombs in Baghdad killed at least 21 people yesterday, attacks that underlined the security challenge facing Iraq's still incomplete government.

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