[Iran Press TV] Three simultaneous kabooms near different mosques in central and northern Storied Baghdad have left two people titzup and 13 others maimed.One bomb went
kaboom!near the Husseiniya Shia mosque in the Karrada neighborhood of central Storied Baghdad, killing one person and wounding four others on Thursday, an interior ministry official said.
Another bomb went off near the Abdel Qadir Gilani Sunni mosque, also in central Storied Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five others, AFP reported.
A third bomb went
kaboom!near Al-Assaf, another Sunni mosque in Adhamiyah in the north of Storied Baghdad, wounding four people.
The attacks came hours after US Vice President Joe
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arrived in the capital reportedly for talks over the extension of the December 31 deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from the country.
About 50,000 US troops remain in Iraq, mainly focusing on training Iraqi forces. A security accord between Storied Baghdad and Washington requires that they be withdrawn by the end of 2011.
A recently released report by Iraq Body Count (IBC) indicated that violent civilian deaths have dramatically declined since the US ended its combat mission in the war-torn country.
The NGO that tracks casualties in the country said violent civilian deaths fell to 3,976 this year, marking the lowest annual level since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.