At least 34 people have been killed and scores injured in three seperate bomb attacks in Baghdad.<br /><br /> The first blast claimed 22 lives and injured 50 people in a restaurant in the Shi’ite New Baghdad district.<br /><br /> The other explosions happened in two different markets, one in the centre of the capital and the other in southern Baghdad.<br /><br /> One eyewitness described what happened in the restaurant: “In a local restaurant in the New Baghdad area , a suicide bomber walked into the middle of the crowd eating in the place. He cried “Allahu Akbar” and exploded.<br /><br /> The carnage comes just hours before the government was due to lift a long-standing overnight curfew in the city.<br /><br /> The Authorities wanted the move to indicate that life was returning back to normal in Baghdad now that the threat from ISIL militants had been repelled.
