Cairo: Blasts near three Baghdad hotels popular with Westerners killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens on Monday afternoon, according to reports from Baghdad.
The Associated Press quoted police as saying the first blast went off at about 3:40 p.m. in the parking lot of the Sheraton Hotel, toppling high concrete blast walls protecting the site and damaging a number of buildings.
Two other blasts followed minutes later, striking near the Babylon Hotel and al-Hamra Hotel, it said.
Baghdad's top military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, was quoted by AP as saying suicide bombers were responsible for all three blasts.
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