Attacks in Baghdad have led to the deaths of at least 68 people with scores more injured.

In one strike at about 9:30pm (06:30 GMT) on Tuesday in a mostly Shia neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital, a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded, killing eight people and wounding 44 more.

The tanker, which was filled with kerosene, was blown up in the northwestern Ur neighbourhood. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Earlier in the day, at least 60 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at an army recruitment centre in the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi officials said at least 125 other people were wounded in that blast, when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb as men queued outside the centre in central Baghdad.

The attack occurred at the historical site of the country’s defence ministry, a building that was turned into an army recruitment centre and military base after the 2003 US-led invasion.

Yasir Ali, who had been waiting outside the military headquarters said that he saw the bomber, describing him as a blond young man who walked up to an officer and blew himself up.

‘Severed hands and legs were falling over me,’ the Associated Press news agency quoted Ali […]