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The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It's posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy's Washington Bureau.

Baghdad

- Around 8 p.m. a suicide car bomb exploded in Al Tayaran square in central Baghdad killing two civilians and injuring 14 others.

Babil

- A suicide wearing a vest bomb targeted worshipers at a Shiite mosque in Al Musaieb town south of Baghdad (25 miles north of Babil), 12 worshipers were killed and 19 others were injured.

Diyala

- A booby trapped house, 6 miles south of Baquba, exploded as Iraqi army soldiers raided the house early this morning, two soldiers were killed and three were injured.