23 April attacks On 23 April, over a two-hour time span, a wave of coordinated bombings hit
Shia Muslims leaving Friday prayers,
Shiite neighbourhoods, and a market. The attacks consisted of five car bombs, which accounted for 58 deaths, and approximately 13 bombs in total. A car bomb outside the Abdel Hadi al-Chalabi mosque in
Al-Hurriya killed five and wounded 14. The bombings killed at least 39 and wounded 56 others in Sadr City. A car bomb and a
suicide bomber in the Al-Ameen district in east Baghdad killed 11 worshipers leaving a Shiite mosque after prayers and wounded 23 additional people. Late on 24 April, the official death toll from the Friday attacks stood at 72. The three bombs, which were hidden in plastic bags, injured 25 additional people. The three bombs exploded simultaneously in a billiard hall located in a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighbourhood. ==Perpetrators and aftermath==