Four bombs kill 31 in Baghdad

Two suicide car bombers struck within a minute of each other and just half a mile apart in south Baghdad today, killing at least seven policemen and raising the day’s bombing death toll in the capital to at least 31.

Earlier, the day’s first suicide car bombing killed 16 policemen and five civilians in the same neighbourhood, signalling a new round of bomb violence one day after residents suffered one of Baghdad’s bloodiest days since the 2003 US-led invasion.