Five Baghdad car bombs kill 101

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08 December,2009 04:03 pm

More than 100 people are dead after five car bombs exploded across Baghdad, the interior ministry said. Nearly 182 others were wounded in the blasts, three of which targeted government sites and went off within minutes of each other.Civilians and security personnel have definitely been killed, Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim al-Moussawi said. < br>Iraqi police put the death toll from the attacks at 112. Two blasts occurred outside the labour ministry building and a second hit a nearby court complex - found near the protected Baghdad Green Zone. Another went off near the new site of Iraq's finance ministry, whose previous building was destroyed in an August explosion. A blast also occurred outside a university in Baghdad.