Iraq car bombs killed at least 48 people on Monday, AFP quoted security and medical officials as saying.

Iraq car bombs killed at least 48 people on Monday, AFP quoted security and medical officials as saying.

On Monday, 11 car bombs hit nine different areas of Baghdad, while another exploded in Mahmudiyah to the south of the capital.

Two more car bombs exploded in Kut, while two hit Samawa and another detonated in Basra, all south of Baghdad.

The attacks wounded at least 226 people.

The Monday violence came a day after attacks killed 14 people, among them nine Kurdish police who died in a suicide bombing in the northern town of Tuz hurmatu.