PHOTO: A bombed restaurant in the mainly-Shia neighbourhood of Jididah on Saturday
At least 38 people were killed and at least 100 wounded in four bombings around Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Saturday, hours before an 11-year night-time curfew was to be lifted.
In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt inside a restaurant in the mainly-Shia neighborhood of Jididah, killing 23 people and injuring at least 49.
Thirteen more were killed and 45 were hurt in a double bombing in the Sharqa market district. A fourth bomb killed two and wounded seven in the mainly-Shia section of Abu Sheir in the Dura neighborhood.
The Iraqi Government announced on Thursday that the curfew, which began after the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, would end on Saturday at midnight and that four neighborhoods would be “demilitarized”.
