At least 11 people were killed and 39 wounded on Tuesday when bombs went off in three of Baghdad’s Shi’ite neighbourhoods, an interior ministry official said.
The official said the attacks, which occurred within minutes of each other in central and eastern Baghdad, were caused by two car bombs and one suicide bomber who blew himself up.
Earlier he said all the three attacks were car bombs.
Four people were killed and 16 wounded by the explosion of one car bomb near a market in the central Karada district.
Three people died and 11 were wounded when a suicide bomber laden with a belt of explosives blew himself up in the al-Amin neighbourhood, while four were killed and another 12 wounded in the Jadida area of the capital, the official added.
Earlier in the day gunmen planted a bomb at the entrance of the Sunni al-Hurriya mosque, in the northern al-Hurriya neighbourhood of the capital.
The latest outbreak of violence follows a several days of sectarian bloodshed triggered by the bombing on Wednesday of a Shi’ite shrine in the northern town of Samarra.
About 330 people have died in Baghdad since Wednesday’s bombing of the Samarra shrine, an official with the capital’s main morgue told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.
Earlier on Tuesday the tomb of Hussein al-Majid, father of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was also bombed in the northern town of Tikrit. – AFP
