Up to 30 killed in blasts in Iraqi capital: police

BAGHDAD: Up to 30 people were killed in a series of explosions around Baghdad on Tuesday, a police source said, two days after al Qaeda militants staged a bloodbath when they took hostages in a Christian church in the Iraqi capital.

More than 10 car bombs and roadside bombs exploded, some outside cafes, in the early evening in several mainly Shi’ite areas of the city, officials said.

The police source, who asked not to be identified, said more than 60 people were wounded. – Reueters