At least 11 people were killed and 72 others injured in explosions at residential buildings across Baghdad today, an Iraq military official said.

Three loud explosions shook central Baghdad in quick succession today, breaking a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital after elections last month.

Two powerful suicide car bombs blew up outside the Justice Ministry and city government offices in central Baghdad today, killing at least 136 people in the worst attack in more than two years.

Twin blasts from bombs planted outside a bank killed four Iraqi police and one civilian today in the western city of Fallujah, police said.