In Iraq, 80 people were killed and 250 others wounded in a wave of blasts and mortar strike across Baghdad yesterday. Iraq news agency quoting police sources has reported that a series of explosions occurred in different parts of Baghdad including twelve car bombs, two explosive charges and a sticky bomb, which went off in different parts of Baghdad. Explosions struck the Shiite neighborhoods of Kadhimiya in the northwest, Amil, Bayaa and Shulaa in the southwest, Ur and Zuhour in the northeast, Sadr City and Amin in the east and Abu Dhsir in the southern part of the city. Other blasts struck mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods, including Yarmouk, Jihad and Eghraiat. Injured have been admitted to different hospitals of the city and condition of some of them is stated to be serious. Iraqi Prime Minister Noorie al Maliki has visited hospitals and described the act as highly criminal, which was aimed at destabilizing the government.