Dozens killed in Iraq bombings

In Dura in south Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 10.

Two roadside bombs exploded near a restaurant in Abu Shir, also in south
Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 10.

A car bomb in Mansur in west Baghdad killed two people and wounded five.

And a roadside bomb wounded five people in Taji to the north of Baghdad.

In Diyala province, north of the capital, two car bombs exploded in the
provincial capital Baquba, killing three people and wounding eight, while a
roadside bomb killed one person, a police major said.

Gunmen also attacked a house west of Baquba, killing two people and wounding a
third, while a roadside bomb east of Baquba wounded a man and his wife.

And a car bomb in the town of Dujail killed one person and wounded three at
about 8:00am (0500 GMT), the officer said.

In Salaheddin province, also north of Baghdad, another car bomb exploded in
the refinery town of Baiji near its courthouse at about 7:00am (0400 GMT),
killing three people and wounding five, a police colonel said.

And 12 people were wounded by a car bomb near the police headquarters in
Balad, north of Baghdad, about 9:30am (0630 GMT), a police lieutenant
colonel said.

South of the capital, a car bomb exploded about 8:15am (0515 GMT) in the city
of Hilla, killing one person and wounding five, a police first lieutenant
said.

In Al-Mussayeb, a car bomb wounded 63 people, most of them primary
schoolchildren, the police lieutenant and a hospital official said.

A roadside bomb in Al-Nil, north of Hilla, wounded seven people, three of them
policemen, the lieutenant added.

In the northern oil hub of Kirkuk, two car bombs targeting police wounded 25
people, while another car bomb targeting an office of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan party of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to the south of the city
wounded four, security and medical sources said.

It was the deadliest day in Iraq since January 14, when 53 people were killed
in a suicide bombing on the outskirts of the southern port city of Basra.

Source: AFP

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