from a baghdad diary

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there was the devastating double-bombing at Mustansiriya university in east Baghdad last week, in which 70 people were killed - most of them young students. ... a car bomb was set off at the university entrance. Then, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest in a crowd fleeing the scene.

Rescue workers arriving to retrieve the dead and wounded were greeted by the sound of dozens of mobile phones ringing amongst the wreckage, as friends and relatives tried again and again to check on the fate of loved ones.

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