Baghdad bomb blasts claim 12 lives

A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad early on Sunday killed 12 people and wounded at least 31, government sources said. In the deadliest attack a small truck parked near the passport office on Magreb Street in the north of the city killed 12 and wounded 20, defence and interior ministry sources said.
Several people suffered burns as flames from the powerful blast swept skywards, damaging buildings, they said. Meanwhile, on Palestine Street in the centre of the Iraqi capital a roadside bomb wounded nine including six civilians as a police patrol passed by.
A third attack thought to have targeted government vehicles wounded two civilians in the south-eastern neighbourhood of Al-Ghadir.