Security ordered tightened as death toll in Baghdad hits 157

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

BAGHDAD -- As the death toll from a weekend truck bombing in Baghdad climbed to 157, Iraq's embattled prime minister ordered new security measures, including abandoning the use of bomb-detection wands U.S. experts pronounced worthless years ago.

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