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three suicide bomb blast occurred in the city of Baqouba, Iraq, Wednesday, March 3, 2010, causing at least 30 people dead and injuring 48 people. The explosion took the most casualties in recent weeks in Iraq this occurs an election (the election) to be held on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Elections were held to determine who will control the forces the United States (U.S.) out of Iraq, and help determine Iraq’s ability to overcome sectarian conflict since the U.S. invasion last seven years. U.S. and Iraqi authorities have repeatedly warned that the rebel group were expected to conduct such attacks is to disrupt the election. Police spokesman Diyala provincial capital of these, Captain Ghalib al-Karkhi, say, three explosions occurred and very quick succession in the town located 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.

First, a car bomb exploded targeting a local government office, close to the Iraqi military facility. Within minutes, another suicide bomber drove the vehicle and crashed into the headquarters of the provincial councils. While the third bomber, wearing a vest containing explosives, ride in an ambulance with wounded to hospitals as rescuers and the victims of two previous explosions burst into the hospital. The third explosion in the hospital more casualties than the first two explosions. The police later managed to tame the fourth car bomb which is about 200 meters from the hospital. Baqouba is a city inhabited by groups of Sunni and Shia Muslims. Both the city and the province of Diyala Baqouba is the headquarters of rebel attacks though since the peak in 2006 and 2007, rebel groups in the region to stop an attack today.