BAGHDAD -- Two suicide car bombs exploded yesterday amid throngs that poured into Baghdad's streets after the Iraqi national soccer team edged South Korea to reach its first Asian Cup final.

Police said at least 50 people were killed and 135 were injured Celebratory gunfire after Iraq's 4-3 victory at the game in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killed at least one person and injured 17, police said. Among the wounded were two police officers and an Iraqi soldier.

A love of soccer is one of the few things that unite Iraqis across ethnic and religious lines, and violence dropped to unusually low levels as Iraqis sat transfixed through the nail-biting match, broadcast live on Iraqi television and radio.

They then streamed onto the streets, waving flags and pointing guns skyward in celebration.

But barely two hours after the gamed ended, a suicide car bomber killed at least 30 people and injured 75 near an ice cream shop in Baghdad's western Mansour neighborhood, police said.