BAGHDAD: Three bombings in Baghdad, including one opposite the foreign ministry, killed at least 19 people and left 30 wounded on Wednesday, security and medical officials said, updating an earlier toll.

The explosions, in confessionally mixed neighborhoods of Baghdad, come amid the worst surge in bloodshed in more than five years, raising fears Iraq is slipping back into the sectarian violence that left tens of thousands dead in 2006 and 2007.

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