BAGHDAD: At least 23 persons were killed and dozens others injured in a series of bombings which struck the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on Thursday, officials said.
The officials said that four car bombs and a roadside bomb struck four different areas of the city on Thursday morning.
In the single deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded at a bus station in the Kadhimiyah area of north Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 24.
Another car bomb exploded in Baladiyat near an office of Al-Ahad television, which is affiliated with Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a Shiite militant group that split from powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army.
