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BLASTS KILL AT LEAST 28 IN SHIA AREAS OF BAGHDAD
Baku, April 6 (AZERTAC). Bombs have destroyed several buildings in three areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 28 people and wounding 75, an Iraqi official says.
The attacks took place in mainly Shia areas of the capital. The attacks come just two days after another set of suicide bombings near foreign embassies in the capital killed at least 41 people. The bombings ended a period of relative calm after last month`s parliamentary elections.
The election gave a slender lead to former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi but there is continued uncertainty over who will form the country`s next government.
On Tuesday at least three of the blasts destroyed apartment buildings in northern Baghdad, and one building in the south western part of the city.
The attackers detonated seven blasts across the city, using homemade bombs and a car packed with explosives, Iraqi military spokesman Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi told AP news agency. A restaurant in the central area near Haifa Street was also destroyed, reports said.
The areas were reportedly strongholds of the Mehdi Army, the armed militia connected to the Sadrist Movement led by Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.