BAGHDAD
At least 27 people were killed and dozens others were injured in multiple explosions across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Saturday, police said.
Two people were killed and 10 others were injured in an improvised explosive device explosion at a market in al-Shorja area in central Baghdad. The blast was quickly followed by another suicide bomb explosion at the same place that targeted security forces and paramedics gathered there, leaving eight people, including the bomber dead and 12 others injured.
Separately, one person was killed and five others were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast near a market in al-Sha’b district in northern Baghdad, police said.
Another explosion in front of a marketplace in Abo Deshir neighborhood in Dora area in southern Baghdad left two people dead and seven others wounded.
Also earlier Saturday, 14 people were killed and at least 40 others were wounded in a suicide attack that targeted a restaurant in New Baghdad district in eastern Baghdad, medical source said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had decided Thursday to end Baghdad’s eight-year curfew beginning Saturday, a measure first implemented by former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki because of Shia-Sunni conflicts.
Iraq has been gripped by a security vacuum since June 2014 when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants stormed the northern province of Mosul and declared a self-styled caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
