Bombings across Nine Iraqi Cities Kill at least 58 People

A wave of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq killed at least 58 people on Sunday

A wave of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq killed at least 58 people on Sunday, a day after at least 27 people were killed in bombings and shootings across the country. Iraq attack

All of the deadly incidents occurred in south and central Iraq.

Sunday's deadliest attack was in the city of Hillah, 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, where a car bomb near an outdoor market killed nine civilians and wounded 15 others, a police officer said. A few minutes later, another car bomb went off nearby, killing six civilians and wounding 14, he added.

In the nearby town of Iskandariyah, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital, another car bomb hit a parking lot, killing four civilians and wounding nine, police said.

Another car bomb went off in an industrial area of the city of Karbala, killing five and wounding 25, a police officer said. Karbala is 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. In the aftermath, security officials inspected burnt-out cars in front of what appeared to be a smashed row of workshops.

In Kut, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, a car bomb targeted construction workers and food stalls, killing two and wounding 14, another provincial police officer said.

Seven more civilians were killed and 31 others were wounded when four separate car bombs ripped through the towns of Suwayrah and Hafriyah outside Kut, police said.

In Baghdad's northern Azamiyah neighborhood, a car bomb that exploded near the convoy of the head of Baghdad's provincial council killed three and wounded eight, police say. The council head escaped unharmed.

Two other car bombs hit the southern cities of Basra and Nasiriyah, killing eight civilians and wounding 26, two police officers said. And two more civilians were killed when a bomb hit a police patrol in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib. Nine other people were wounded.

To the northeast of Baghdad, gunmen broke into a farm in the village of Abu Sayda and killed three farmers, police said.