Three rockets hit a major telephone exchange Wednesday, knocking out international phone connections for much of the country only days after the system was put back in service, officials said.
According to The AP, one Iraqi worker was killed and another wounded.
Qassim Hadi, an undersecretary with Iraq's Communication Ministry, said the strike happened just after 7:30 a.m. local time at an exchange in the Mansour district west of the Tigris river.
Earlier, two explosions were heard Wednesday morning in Baghdad, a day after simultaneous suicide bombing attacks on Shiite shrines in the capital and the holy city of Karbala killed at least 143 people.
According to The AP, it was not clear where the blast were and U.S. military officials said they had no information.
Iraqi officials called for calm at the start of a three-day mourning period in light of Tuesday's attacks and hundreds of funerals were expected to take place.
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