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KIRKUK, Iraq, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A powerful explosion late Wednesday destroyed a restaurant in central Baghdad, killing at least five people, the BBC reported.
Lt. Gen. Ahmed Kadhem, the deputy Iraqi interior minister and Baghdad chief of police, said the blast in the upscale Karrada district left at least five people dead.
Dozens were injured in the blast and rushed to hospitals, medical officials confirmed.
The restaurant, Nabil's, was filled with foreigners celebrating the New Year when the explosion ripped through the facility.
The U.S. military and Iraqi police have been on high alert due to the risk of guerrilla attacks to mark the New Year in Baghdad.
Meanwhile, Kurdish militiamen in Iraq opened fire on an anti-Kurdish demonstration in Kirkuk Wednesday, killing two and injuring 14 others.
Some 2,000 demonstrators, most of them Arabs and Turkmen, were grouped in front of the government offices to protest the proposal for federalism when the Kurdish militia, or peshmergas, based in the area opened fire on the crowd, Colonel Salem Talib Tahar told al-Jazeera.
The protesters were angry with the push by the city's Kurdish majority to incorporate the oil-rich center into a Kurdish state.
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