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<p>Seventeen people have been killed in bomb attacks across Iraq&#8217;s capital, Baghdad, including Iranian pilgrims near a revered shrine and shoppers at a Shiite neighbourhood market, authorities said.</p>
<p>The attacks &#8211; several roadside bombs and cars packed with explosives &#8211; wounded more than 100 people. Most of the casualties were believed to be Shiite Muslims, a frequent target of Sunni insurgents who have long sought to provoke civil war in Iraq.</p>
<p>Police said the deadliest strike targeted a marketplace in Baiyaa, a Shiite neighbourhood in south-western Baghdad. A car parked outside a shopping area exploded around midday, killing six people and injuring 42. Hospital officials confirmed the casualties.</p>
<p>An hour earlier, near-simultaneous blasts hit two groups of Iranian pilgrims near the gold-domed Moussa al-Kadhim mosque in the Shiite neighbourhood of Kazimiyah, according to security forces.</p>
<p>A pair of bombs killed five pilgrims resting near the shrine, and a car exploded next to a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in the nearby Shiite area of Shula, killing another three people.</p>
<p>Police and medical officials said those two attacks wounded 52 people.</p>
<p>Attacks by Sunni extremists on Shiite pilgrims and Iraqi Shiites helped fuel a surge of violence between the two main Islamic sects during the height of Iraq&#8217;s bloodshed between 2005 and 2007, as the insurgency against US forces gave way to sectarian fighting.</p>
<p>Shiite pilgrims come from all over the world to visit shrines and mosques in Iraq which are revered by Shiites, but the vast majority of the religious tourists are Iranians.</p>
<p>Earlier, police said a roadside bomb targeting a judge&#8217;s security convoy in downtown Baghdad killed three people, including two guards, and wounded seven passers-by. The judge was not in the convoy as it drove through Karradah, an area of mixed-ethnicity.</p>
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