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Baghdad (AFP) June 10, 2010 A suicide bomber killed three members of an anti-Al-Qaeda militia and two soldiers in west Baghdad on Thursday, a spokesman said. "A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up at a checkpoint manned by the army and Sahwa (militiamen)," Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim Atta told AFP. "Three Sahwa members and two soldiers were killed." Atta added that six people were wounded in the 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) attack in the city's Al-Amriyah neighbourhood. Thursday's unrest comes after March parliamentary elections, which have still not resulted in a new government, and ahead of parliament convening on Monday for the first time since the polls. US and Iraqi security officials had warned that a long period of coalition formation could give insurgent groups an opportunity to further destabilise the country. Government figures released last week showed that 337 people were killed as a result of violence in May, the fourth time this year that the overall death toll has been higher than in the corresponding month of 2009.
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