BAGHDAD
At least 29 people were killed and 71 others injured in Iraq as a spate of bomb attacks rocked the capital, Baghdad.
According to security sources, three people died in a blast near a cafe in Baghdad's southwestern al-Amil neighborhood late on Thursday. Eleven people were wounded.
Twenty-one people were killed and 48 others injured when two explosive-laden vehicles exploded near restaurants and a military base in the northern Kadhimiya region. There was also mortar shelling on the same region.
In a separate incident, an explosive-laden vehicle blew up in the western Salam neighborhood, killing two people and injuring five others while a mortar shell claimed three lives in northern Baghdad and wounded seven others.
Iraq has suffered from escalating ethnic violence, which morphed into militant terror ever since a coalition of armed groups linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, captured large swathes of the country's predominantly Sunni provinces in early June.
Violence instigated by ISIL militants has claimed more than 1,400 lives in August alone, and caused 1.2 million Iraqis, including Turkmen, Arabs, Christians and Ezidis, to flee their homes.
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