41 killed in Baghdad blasts

Five explosions – including three car bombs, a suicide attacker wearing an explosives belt and a blast near the National Theatre – rocked Baghdad today, killing 41 people and wounding scores.

The suicide attacker joined a line of people waiting to buy kerosene before detonating the explosives strapped to his body, witnesses said in the eastern New Baghdad neighbourhood. The blast killed 23 people and injured 51, said Interior Ministry official Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi.