Blasts appear to target foreign embassies

BAGHDAD - Three suicide bombers detonated car bombs near foreign missions in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 224.

The blasts near the Iranian, Egyptian and German embassies followed mortar attacks on the Iraqi capital's Green Zone, home to government buildings, official residences and foreign embassies. They came two days after gunmen slaughtered 24 people in a Sunni village south of Baghdad.