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Five churches bombed in Baghdad
From correspondents in Baghdad, Iraq
October 16, 2004

IRAQ'S tiny Christian community was targeted in a string of blasts at churches around Baghdad today, while a medic was killed when a mortar round exploded outside a hospital.

As chaos returned to the streets, US and Iraqi troops held firm to positions around the rebel hub of Fallujah, west of the capital, in the hunt for Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi - the country's most wanted man who is blamed for some of the deadliest attacks here since last year's invasion.

In an apparently coordinated attack on the second day of the holy month of Ramadan, the church of Saint Joseph was hit at about 4am local time (11am AEST) followed by similar explosions over the next two hours outside four others.
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