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Blast hits Baghdad UN building
An explosion has ripped through the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
The US military says the blast caused "scores of casualties", the Reuters news agency has reported.
The United Nations says its special representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was injured in the explosion.
The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Baghdad says the blast tore away part of the building.
She says there are suggestions that the explosion could have been caused by a car bomb.
A plume of black smoke was seen pouring out of the building.
Hundreds of people work in the building, which used to be a hotel.
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