Two roadside bombs killed at least five Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday in one of the most serious attacks on security forces in recent weeks, military and hospital officials said. One bomb exploded in a public square and then a second blast went off nearby as an army patrol arrived in the mostly Sunni neighbourhood of Adhamiya in the north of Baghdad, security officials said.
"Two roadside bombs exploded one after the other," Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, a spokesman for Baghdad security operations said. "Five people were killed, two army officers and three soldiers." Three other soldiers and eight civilians were also wounded in the attack, a hospital official said.
Iraq's violence has lulled during Ramazan, the Muslim holy month which began at the start of August.
Insurgents often use one explosion to draw security forces before detonating secondary blasts to target them. Attacks and bombings have fallen sharply since the height of Iraq's sectarian slaughter in 2006-2007, but Sunni Islamists tied to al Qaeda, and Shia militias still carry out almost daily bombings and assassinations.
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