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Baghdad: Three more bodies were pulled out on August 21 from the rubble of the UN headquarters in the Iraqi capital, a UN spokesman said.

The discovery raised the death toll from the devastating truck bomb attack to 23.

Soldiers recovered three bodies from the UN offices in the Canal Hotel on August 21 morning, the UN spokesman in Baghdad, Salim Lone, said.

The UN headquarters was attacked on August 19 by an unknown group using a massive truck bomb fashioned out of a crude combination of explosives from Saddam Hussein's old military arsenal, including a giant 225-kilogram bomb, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators said.