Breaking News - The death toll in an explosion in Baghdad has risen to 131 people, 160 people were injured, according to the TV channel "Al Jazeera" and Iraqi media, citing local authorities.
The first - the most powerful - explosion occurred last night in the lively El-Karrada in the city center: near the restaurant was blown up a car bomb. The second explosion occurred some time in the north of Baghdad.
In the central district of Karada many shops, cafes and restaurants in the holy month of Ramadan is always filled after sunset, when no longer apply strict restrictions mandatory for fasting Muslims.
The explosions took place a week after Iraqi government forces back under the control of the city of Fallujah, which was under the control of the IG.
Iraqi Prime Minister Heidar Abadi on Sunday visited the site of an explosion in central Baghdad and said that the attack "was a response to the IG Iraqi army advances on the liberation of Fallujah."
This Abadi's motorcade was forced to hastily leave the scene of the tragedy, after an angry crowd tried to attack the car premiere.
In published on the Internet amateur record shows that the people in the crowd throwing objects into the cars and the protection of the prime minister and shouting obscenities.
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