**A number of large explosions have killed at least eight people in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.**One blast appears to have been near the health ministry. Another is believed to have been on the same street as the oil ministry and the police academy.
A third blast reportedly killed several people in the Sunni area of Doura.
On Monday a bomb killed at least eight people at a Baghdad school. However violence in Iraq has fallen generally over the past 18 months.