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More than 100 dead in Baghdad explosions
More than 100 people were killed and at least 200 injured in a series of car bombings, suicide bombings and explosions from improvised devices that rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday evening, security sources and witnesses said.
The blasts - 21 in all - targeted cafes, restaurants and popular markets. Eleven of them were car bombs and attacks by suicide bombers, witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa.
Police rushed to close all roads leading to the sites of the explosions as the sound of ambulances wailed throughout the city.
A curfew was imposed by police on the capital, with patrols going around the city telling people no to leave their homes.
Earlier on Tuesday, five people died and two were injured in unrelated attacks, security sources said.