At least 22 people were killed in two bombings in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, police said, hours before the government was due to lift a long-standing night-time curfew on the capital. At least 50 people were wounded in the blasts, the officials said. In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt inside a restaurant in the Shi’ite neighborhood of New Baghdad, leaving 12 dead. In the second attack, two bombs ripped through the bustling Sharqa market district, killing 10 people. Earlier police had put the number of dead at 23. The interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said he did not believe the blasts were linked to the decision to lift the curfew. The Iraqi government announced on Thursday that the decade-old curfew in the capital would end on Saturday at midnight and that four neighborhoods would be “demilitarized”. The moves are […]