Six blasts shake Baghdad
Six explosions boomed across central Baghdad today, sending plumes of smoke into the air.
Four explosions hit the city in a row. Several minutes later two more blasts shook the city, and the crack of gunfire rang out.
One of the blasts hit a bank of the Tigris River, while a second hit in downtown Baghdad, sending up billows of black smoke.
An air raid siren sounded in the Green Zone, the fortified enclave housing the Iragi government offices and the US Embassy.
The cause of the explosions was not immediately clear.
