At least 24 martyred in Baghdad bomb blasts

At least 24 people have been killed and some 50 others wounded as a bomb blast ripped through different Shia neighborhoods of Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

An explosion occurred when a truck filled with explosives blew up at a checkpoint near a southern Baghdad district.

A separate blast rocked Baghdad’s Palestine Street, the casualties of which are yet to be announced.

Iraqi officials usually blame similar terrorist attacks on Takfiri militants and former Ba’athists who Baghdad says have formed an alliance to destabilize the country.