Dozens killed in a bloody day for Baghdad
31 Iraqis were killed in several bomb attacks throughout the capital Baghdad, as airstrikes kill 20 IS militants in Anbar
An Iraqi policeman stands guard at the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad on 10 September (AFP).
Published date: 12 February 2015 23:30 GMT
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31 Iraqis have been killed and 82 injured in several explosions across Baghdad, including five car bomb attacks that rocked the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, Iraqi security forces told the Andolu Agency.
Officials said 19 people were killed in a suicide car bombing followed by a car bomb which struck near a police checkpoint in a crowded area of eastern Baghdad. At least two of the dead were policemen, and at least 52 people were wounded.
One of the incidents occurred in the southern Yousifia district, where four people were killed after a roadside bomb exploded that also left five others wounded.
In a separate incident, an explosive placed in a vehicle blew up in the southern al-Bunuq district of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding one other.
Further details about the rest of the incidents are yet to be disclosed.
No-one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Meanwhile a total of 20 Islamic State militants were killed by Iraqi army airstrikes in al-Anbar province on Wednesday, the operation chief told Anadolu Agency.
Major General Rashad Falah, who conducted the operations against IS militants in Anbar, west of Baghdad, said the army had also destroyed four anti-aircraft weapons.
The Iraqi army, along with Peshmerga forces and armed tribesmen, are being backed by US airstrikes in an effort to dislodge IS-led militants who, in mid-June, overran large parts of northwestern Iraq including Mosul, the country's second largest city.
Other Western countries are supporting Iraqi operations with munitions and weapons.
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