Iraq: Car Bombings In Baghdad Kill Dozens

At least 46 people have been killed in multiple car bombings in Baghdad, Iraqi police and medics said.

Explosions struck late on Saturday in the predominantly Shi'ite neighbourhoods of Karrada, Baiyaa, Shurta, Tobchi and Zafaraniyah.

It was unclear who was behind the attacks - the latest in a wave of violence that has killed more than 200 people since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Police said the Baghdad atrocities were all caused by bombs in cars parked in commercial streets.

And security sources claimed the blasts were timed for nightfall after the breaking of the daily Ramadan fast when shoppers take to the streets.

A man cleans up after a bombing outside a shop

The deadliest explosion was in the northern neighbourhood of Tobchi, where 10 people were killed.

In the Karrada district, at least four people died.

The unrest has raised fears of a return to full-blown sectarian conflict in a country where Kurds, Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable way of sharing power.

Sectarian tensions have been inflamed by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, which has drawn in Shi'ite and Sunni fighters from Iraq and beyond to fight on opposite sides of the conflict.

Sunni insurgents, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, have been recruiting from Iraq's Sunni minority, which resents Shi'ite domination since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

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