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Baghdad: A series of bombings Sunday across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 81, police officials said. Police were searching the area after receiving information about two bomb threats.

Police were searching the area after receiving information about two bomb threats. According to police and an interior ministry source, at least 12 people were also wounded.

Local media, citing the provincial police chief, said 25 people were killed and another 10 were wounded, all of them civilians, including women and children.

All of the dead are believed to be Afghan.

Fighters from the mainly Shi’ite Hashid Shaabi militia, together with Iraqi security forces, are preparing a counter-attack in Anbar against Islamic State after the militants seized the provincial capital Ramadi in mid-May.

KABUL: At least 12 civilians were killed in twin roadside bomb blasts in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday, blaming the attacks on the Taliban as the militants intensify their summer offensive.