Evening bomb blasts kill 30 in Baghdad

By Qassim AbdulZahra

Published May 29, 2013 4:00am ET

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Evening bomb blasts kill 30 in Baghdad — A street vendor inspects his destroyed juice cart at the scene of a bomb attack at Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. A bomb left on a Baghdad minibus and a suicide truck bomb north of the Iraqi capital killed and wounded scores of people on Tuesday, officials said. The attacks followed a particularly bloody day that left more than 70 people dead. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) | Karim Kadim

BAGHDAD (AP) — Bomb blasts tore through two Baghdad neighborhoods Wednesday evening, killing at least 30 people including several members of a wedding party, and extending a relentless wave of bloodshed roiling Iraq.

The attacks come as the country is experiencing its most sustained bout of violence since the 2011 U.S. military withdrawal. More than 500 people have been killed since the start of May.

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