36 people killed in Baghdad suicide bombing

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Saturday 07 Feb 2015 - 18:43 Makkah mean time-18-4-1436 Baghdad (IINA) - Separate suicide bomb attacks have killed at least 36 people and injured 94 more in Baghdad, police officials said. In the first incident on Saturday, a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a restaurant in the predominantly Shia neighbourhood of Jididah, killing at least 23 people and wounding 49 more. In the second incident, a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped in a vest in a busy commercial street in Al-Shurjah, killing 13 and injuring another 45, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but suicide bombings are a tactic often used by armed groups in Iraq, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Saturday's attacks illustrate the persistent danger of violence in the Iraqi capital even as the nightly curfew was set to end at midnight (21:00 GMT) in Baghdad. Lifting the curfew is a major change to a longstanding policy aimed at curbing violence in the capital by limiting movement at night, which has failed to stop frequent bombings. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered the move earlier in the week, a decision his spokesman said was taken so there would "be normal life as much as possible, despite the existence of a state of war." HA/IINA