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Baghdad market blast kills 62 as US pullout looms (AFP)

Fruits and vegetables are scattered at the site where a car bomb exploded in 2006. At least 62 people were killed by a bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad's sprawling slum neighbourhood of Sadr City on Wednesday, less than a week before US troops must pull out of Iraq's cities.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - At least 62 people were killed by a bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad's sprawling slum neighbourhood of Sadr City on Wednesday, less than a week before US troops must pull out of Iraq's cities.