Topic: Unrest, Conflict and War. Three suicide bombers killed as many as 41 people and wounded more than after they detonated car bombs in a coordinated attack on foreign embassies in central Baghdad.
The blasts, which went off within moments of each other near the Iranian, Egyptian and German embassies, followed mortar attacks on the Iraqi capital's Green Zone, home to government buildings, official residences and foreign embassies.
The attacks came two days after gunmen slaughtered 24 people in a Sunni village south of Baghdad. One bomb blew up in front of the main gate of the Iranian embassy, just outside the Green Zone, destroying about 30 cars. The Iraqi finance ministry said the nearby offices of its budget directorate and the government real estate bank were damaged.
We are tired of explosions. We do not feel safe," said Jassim Mohammed, 39, who was wounded in the head, arm and leg. A man who went to the scene began crying and moaning when he realised his brother's mini-bus had been destroyed by the blast. He got married a week ago," he said. At the Egyptian embassy the bomber rammed his car into a concrete blast wall, blowing a three-metre crater in the street.
Mr Moussawi said Iraqi security forces defused a fourth car bomb in the al-Masbah district of central Baghdad and arrested the would-be bomber. Iraqi authorities had warned of a possible escalation of violence because of rising tension after a March 7 parliamentary election produced no clear winner. The outcome promises weeks of potentially divisive talks to form a government.
