Female suicide bomber kills 3 in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD, Feb 17 (AP): A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a predominantly Shi'ite area in central Baghdad Sunday morning, killing at least three people and wounding 10, the police said.
The police in the Masbah commercial area suspected the woman, who was in a black Islamic robe, and asked her to stop but she fled to a nearby building, said an officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to release information.
The attack was one of two bombings in Iraq Sunday morning. In the northern city of Mosul, a bomb in a parked car detonated, killing a police officer and two civilians, police there said.