Multiple blasts kill 43, injure over 230 across Iraq
At least 43 people have been killed and over 230 others injured in bomb explosions in several Iraqi cities and towns ahead of the next week's Arab League summit in the capital city of Baghdad, Press TV reports.
The spate of violence, which rocked several Iraqi towns and cities spanning the southern holy city of Karbala and the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Tuesday between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m, was the deadliest incident in Iraq in nearly a month. Meanwhile, a car bomb detonated in a parking lot in front of the foreign ministry in the Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone. So far the number of probable casualties is unknown.
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