Series of blasts destroys Baghdad buildings

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Coordinated blasts destroyed at least four buildings in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 12, civil defence and police sources said.

A suicide bomber also struck near the former British embassy in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

The building blasts took place in the Shula and Chukook districts of northwestern Baghdad, the al-Shurta al-Rabaa area of southwestern Baghdad and the Alawi district in the centre of the city, the sources said.

The blasts hit the capital two days after coordinated suicide car bomb attacks on foreign embassies killed 41 people and wounded more than 200 others.

Gunmen attacked a village south of Baghdad and killed 24 people on Friday.

(Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim, Khalid al-Ansary and Aseel Kami, writing by Ian Simpson and Jim Loney; editing by David Stamp)