Death toll rises to 101, 182 wounded in Baghdad bombings

BAGHDAD. December 8. KAZINFORM. Death toll from a series of Baghdad bombings on Tuesday rose to 101 with 182 others injured, an Interior Ministry source said; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

The first explosion occurred at about 10:25 a.m. (0725 GMT) near the new building of the Ministry of Finance in downtown Baghdad, the source said.

    Seconds later, a second blast hit the Ministry of Interior in eastern Baghdad, while the third car bombing struck the Institution of Fine Arts in Mansour neighborhood near Zawraa Park in western Baghdad.

After a minute, the fourth car bombing detonated near the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in northeastern Baghdad, the source said.

The four car bombings left a total of 86 people killed and 159 others injured, he said.

Meanwhile, death toll from the suicide bomb attack which struck a police patrol in the neighborhood of Doura in southern Baghdad earlier in the day, rose to 15 killed, including three policemen, and 23 people injured, the source said; Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.news.xinhuanet.com for full version.