At least 19 people were killed in bomb attacks and a shooting in Baghdad on Wednesday.<br /><br />Two car bombs went off at the same time in the southern Shula residential area killing at least nine people and wounding another 19.<br /><br />A car bomb near a small restaurant in a Shiite neighbourhood in eastern Baghdad killed four, and in a mainly Christian neighbourhood, gunmen shot three more dead. <br /><br />It brings the death toll so far this month to nearly 1,000.<br /><br />On Thursday morning there were reports that gunmen had attacked the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights in Baghdad, taking several officials hostage.
