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A deadly day in Iraq: Three car bombs in two cities kill at least 30

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Three car bombs have exploded in separate areas of Iraq, killing at least 30 people. <br /><br /> Erbil<br /><br /> Islamic militant group ISIL has claimed responsibility for a car bomb detonated outside the US consulate in Erbil, according to the jihadist monitoring group SITE.<br /><br /> Islamic State claims responsibility for car bomb attack outside U.S. consulate in Erbil: http://t.co/yOLDL0IhhX pic.twitter.com/gEfPtnHdUF— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 17, 2015<br /><br /> Initial reports suggest at least three people died and five were wounded in the attack in the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan. <br /><br /> The US State Department confirmed no American personnel had been killed in Friday morning’s blast, which witnesses say occurred outside a café. <br /><br /> Once considered Iraq’s safest province, Kurdistan has become more dangerous in recent weeks; a factor US officials attribute to the rise of ISIL.<br /><br /> Baghdad<br /><br /> Several hundred kilometres to the south, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, at least 27 people were kille

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