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Feb. 18, 2007 / 12:25 PM

Two Baghdad blasts kill 56

BAGHDAD, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Two car bombs killed at least 56 people and wounded 120 in Baghdad Sunday in the deadliest attacks since a new security plan was launched.

Two bombs exploded in an open-air market in the New Baghdad area of the Iraqi capital, the BBC reported.

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Another explosion killed one person at a police checkpoint in Sadr City.

The joint U.S.-Iraqi security plan aimed at curbing sectarian violence in Baghdad went into effect Wednesday.

The explosions occurred one day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice paid an unannounced visit to Baghdad.

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