BAGHDAD: At least 41 people were killed, most of them children, and scores wounded in three almost simultaneous car bombings across western Baghdad on Thursday, hospital officials said.

"We have 41 dead—three men and one woman and the rest were children," the morgue director at the capital's Yarmuk Hospital, Naji Shitshan, told Agence France-Presse.

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