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Reuters, Baghdad

At least 13 killed in different incidents in Iraq.

A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi Army patrol killed five Iraqi soldiers Friday in the northern town of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

It was the second lethal attack on an army convoy in northern Iraq in two days. At around midnight Wednesday, two roadside bombs hit a patrol in a village in Iraq's volatile Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killing five and wounding eight.

Earlier report adds: Two simultaneous roadside bombs tore through an Iraqi army patrol responding to a mortar attack Thursday north of Baghdad, killing 8 Iraqi soldiers, police said. Two other Iraqi soldiers died in another blast near the city of Kirkuk.