April deadliest month in a year as security in Iraq plummets…

BAGHDAD — April was the bloodiest month for violence in Baghdad in more than a year, another sign that Iraq’s security gains are beginning to reverse.

On Wednesday, a series of explosions killed at least 43 people, including at least 41 who were killed in Sadr City, a sprawling Shiite Muslim slum in east Baghdad. Three bombs hidden in parked cars detonated in quick succession along a busy commercial street around 5 p.m., an official with Iraq’s interior ministry said. At least 68 were wounded, and authorities said they expect the death toll to rise.

“It was chaos in the streets,” said one witness, Wissam Hassan.
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