Dozens were killed and many others were wounded as car bombs and suicide attack rocked Iraq on Thursday.

Dozens were killed and many others were wounded as car bombs and suicide attack rocked Iraq on Thursday.

Eleven car bombs exploded in Baghdad province, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 120 others, Iraqi security and medical officials said.

Two car bombs each hit Sinaa street in central Baghdad, Graiat in its north and Husseiniyah near the city, and one each exploded in Baghdad Jadida and Maamal in the capital's east, and in Dura, Shurta al-Rabea and Bayaa in its south.

Earlier in the day, at least 15 people were killed as a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives in a village in northern Iraq.

Police said the explosion tore through a residential area of Al-Muwaffaqiyah, a village east of Mosul that is mainly populated by members of the small Shabak minority.

The 30,000-strong Shabak community mostly live near Iraq's border with Turkey.
Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal sectarian conflict.

With the latest attack, more than 390 people have been killed so far this month, and over 5,100 since the start of the year, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.