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Feb. 12, 2014 | 07:25 PM (Last updated: February 12, 2014 | 09:57 PM)

Bombs kill at least 17 across Iraq: police and medics

People and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Summary

At least 17 civilians and soldiers were killed in car and roadside bomb attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, police and medics said.

More than 1,000 people were killed in attacks across the country in January alone in a trend of intensifying violence that made last year the bloodiest since 2008, when sectarian warfare began to abate from its height.

In the deadliest incident, six soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in the town of Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police and medical sources said.