At least 100 people were killed and more than 100 were injured as a result of coordinated bomb attacks in Iraq's capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, Euronews reported.

Five car bombs exploded in the city almost simultaneously, Al-Jazeera said. Two bombs went off near the labor and interior ministries, two more exploded in central Baghdad, one of them in a market. Another attack hit a police patrol in the city's southern Dora district.

The first bomb exploded at around 10:25 a.m. [07:25 GMT], the TV channel said on its website. A second blast reportedly followed almost immediately, and a third one was heard a minute later.

Local officials were quoted by Al-Jazeera as saying 12 of those killed in the Dora district were students of a nearby university.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came two days after the country's parliament passed a new electoral law, paving the way for general elections in February, the TV channel said.

On Monday, a bomb went off at a school in Baghdad, killing eight people, including six children, and leaving more than 40 injured.

In line with a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, signed in November 2008, some 115,000 U.S. troops should be withdrawn by 2011 from the country, where the number of militant attacks has dramatically dropped over the past two years.

By August 2010, about 50,000 U.S. servicemen will remain on Iraqi territory.

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti)