Baghdad: At least 53 people were killed and 100 others injured in new wave of explosions in Iraq after the US withdrawal, news agencies reported on Thursday.
According to reports, at least five blats struck Iraqi capital Baghdad and another city.
International media linked the blasts to political crisis that has seen the Shiite prime minister issue an arrest warrant for the Sunni-vice president.
Reports said the attacks began when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a bus stop where workers gathered in the Sadr City neighborhood. The blast killed eight people, police said.
That attack was followed by the explosion of a roadside bomb nearby that killed another person. Police found a third bomb nearby and defused it.
Less than two hours later, two blasts struck the Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah in the north of the capital, killing 14 people.
Officials said the Kazimiyah blasts occurred almost simultaneously, with at least one caused by a car bomb.
A roadside bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims also killed at least five people and wounded 20 others near a checkpoint just west of Nassiriya, 185 miles southeast of Baghdad.
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