Serial blasts in Iraq

BAGHDAD: The sereis of coordinated blasts’s across severeal city’s of Iraq leads to the killing of atleast 45 peoples and many injured say’s officials.

In the city of Kerbala two car bomb blasts leads to the killing of 13 citizens.

In the northern city of Kirkuk another car bomb blast’s killed 13 people, most of them officers. The blast is near police headquarters, said police.

In Baghdad, two separate car bomb attacks – one of them opposite the foreign ministry building – killed seven people.

The security forces are placed on high alert across the country.

The blasts coincide with the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the US-led invasion of Iraq.

The attacks come ahead of next week’s Arab League summit to be held in the capital, Baghdad.

Rami Ruhayem, a BBC correspondent, says such coordinated campaigns have become a recurring nightmare in the country.

The Shia Dawa party’s MP, Haider al-Abadi, said the perpetrators wanted to “show that democracy in Iraq doesn’t work”.

Numerous attacks were also reported in other parts of the country.