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Bombs on Sunday ripped through a Baghdad market and a bakery where shoppers were stocking up on sweets and other delicacies to celebrate a major Muslim holiday, killing at least five people, police said. The carnage in the Shurja wholesale market, Baghdad’s oldest and largest, was the second time in two days that open-air shopping places have been targeted. On Saturday, at least 19 people were killed and scores were injured in a bomb and mortar attack on a market in Mahmoudiyah, just south of the capital. Full Story