Two powerful explosions rocked central Baghdad on Wednesday as plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the area near the heavily fortified Green Zone, said witnesses, Xinhua reported.
  
A witness in central Baghdad told Xinhua that the two massive blasts were apparently caused by two car bombings at the garage of a government building in front of the al-Rasheed Hotel at the edge of the Green Zone, which houses some Iraqi government offices and foreign embassies, including a U.S. one.
  
The Iraqi police could not immediately give any comment on the incident.