BAGHDAD: At least 58 persons were killed and over 160 injured in a series of car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, officials said.
According to reports, at least 11 explosions, most of them car bombs, went off across the city in predominantly Shia neighbourhoods of the capital, as well as a confessionally mixed town just to the south of Baghdad.
The deadliest attack occurred in the Jisr al-Diyala neighbourhood of southeast Baghdad, with at least seven persons killed and 21 others wounded, police and a hospital source said.
But blasts also went off in other major Shia neighbourhoods including Kadhimiyah and Sadr City.
No group immediately has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet.
