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'''20 June 2010 Baghdad bombings''' were carried out by two suicide bombers outside [[Trade Bank of Iraq]].<ref name="bbc20100620">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10360154.stm|title=Twin suicide car bombings in central Baghdad kill 26|date=20 June 2010|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=20 June 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100620184508/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10360154.stm| archivedate= 20 June 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>  At least 26 people were killed and 50 people were injured when two suicide bombers drove their cars and exploded them simultaneously in front of the bank's headquarters in central Baghdad.<ref name="NYT20100620">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/world/middleeast/21iraq.html |title=Car Bombs Strike Second Major Iraq Bank |last=Ali |first=Khalid |author2=Williams, Timothy |date=20 June 2010 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=20 June 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623154506/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/world/middleeast/21iraq.html |archivedate=23 June 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>  The two cars, each carrying {{convert|80|kg|lb}} of ammonium nitrate exploded after striking the blast walls protecting the bank.<ref name="Reuters20100610">{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65J0L920100620|title=Suicide blasts kill 26 at Iraqi state-sector bank|last=Mohammed|first=Muhnad|author2=Rasheed, Ahmed|date=20 June 2010|publisher=[[Reuters]]|accessdate=20 June 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100623032219/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65J0L920100620| archivedate= 23 June 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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==External links==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10361175.stm In pictures: Iraq bombings (BBC)]
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