Baghdad, April 06: One person has been killed and five others sustained injuries in a bombing in central Baghdad a day after multiple bomb attacks near foreign embassies in the Iraqi capital left dozens of people dead.
The blast near Iraq’s national theater took its toll on pedestrians and commuters, AFP quoted an Iraqi Interior Ministry official as saying.
Back-to-back attacks on the embassies on Sunday killed at least 41 people and injured over 200.
In the incidents, bombs went off almost simultaneously, with one exploding in the vicinity of the Iranian Embassy and two others jolting an area that houses several diplomatic missions, including the Egyptian Consulate and the German and Spanish embassies, AP reported.
The Spanish Embassy was seriously damaged in the attacks. The Syrian Embassy was also affected by the blasts, and the Iranian Embassy and Egyptian Consulate sustained minor damage, the British newspaper The Guardian reported on Sunday.
It is not clear who is behind the latest terror campaign but Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was quoted by AFP as saying they were most likely al-Qaeda attacks.
The bombing campaign has put a damper on the high expectations and anticipatory mood that followed the recent parliamentary elections.
——-Agencies