45 dead and over 195 wounded in an attack in Iraq

Effectively, the government decided to put the country on strike from the 21st of March till the 1st of April.

In Baghdad, 4 were killed and another 8 injured in a suicide car bomber in Al-Alawi. The explosion occurred at 7 in the morning and among the injured is a lieutenant.

Another armed attack targeted the Saint Thomas church in Mansour district, in which 3 security guards were injured. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the church security guards and fled the scene. In a parking garage facing the Foreign Ministry in Al-Salhiya district, 3 people were killed and 9 were injured due to a car explosion at 10:15 in the morning.
In Mahmudiya, six people were injured in a car bomb that targeted civilians.

In Kirkuk, it was announced that a car bomb went off at about a quarter past eight in the morning at the headquarters of the Police Directorate of Kirkuk, south of the city. This resulted in the death of 13 policemen and the injury of 50 others of which 45 were police officers.

It was added that a car was parked about 500 meters away, and led to the destruction of the building and injuring one person.

In Karbala, two bombs went off at a restaurant and a parking garage at the northern entrance of the city. A spokesman for the Karbala Department of Health, Mahdi Jamal, reported that 13 bodies were received of which 5 were Iranian visitors, and that there were 48 injuries of which 6 were Iranian and included women and children.

2 people died and 31 were injured in a car bomb in a central commercial street in Hilla.

In Ramadi, 2 people were killed and 11 were wounded in another car bomb attack, at about half past nine in the morning.

The convoy of Governor Mohammed Abdul Qasim was subject to a car bomb attack as well at about eleven o'clock in the morning which resulted in the injuring of two bystanders. The governor survived the attack.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq pointed that those attacks will not deter Iraq and his government for succeeding in the Arab summit.