A spate of violence in several Iraqi cities killed on Monday 47 people and injured around 160.
A spate of violence in several Iraqi cities killed on Monday 47 people and injured around 160.
In the deadliest attack, 34 people were killed in a car bomb and a roadside blast in the central Iraqi city of Kut.
Karama hospital director Jabbar al-Yasiri put the toll at 34 dead and 64 wounded, with both figures including women and children. Security officials cordoned off the site of the attacks in their aftermath.
Two car bombs, one of them detonated by a suicide attacker, also killed two people and wounded 20 others in the holy city of Najaf in south Iraq, according to provincial police chief General Abdul Karim Mustafa and a doctor.
A car bomb east of Karbala, another holy city in Iraq's south, killed two and wounded nine others, according to provincial council chief Mohammed al-Mussawi.
Meanwhile, four soldiers were killed, in the restive central Iraqi city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, by gunmen using silenced weapons targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint early Monday, an official in the provincial security command centre said.
Three other bomb blasts in Baquba and a town to its south left 31 wounded, the official said, adding that the provincial government offices have been evacuated.
In the town of Tikrit, north of the Baghdad, three policemen were killed and seven others injured when two suicide bombers detonated their explosives vests inside an anti-terror bureau in the city, an official in Salaheddin provincial operations command said adding that the attack took place at 7:00 am.
Separate explosions in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk killed one and wounded 14, while twin blasts in the western city of Ramadi left one dead and injured seven others.
A car bomb in west Baghdad and a roadside bomb in a town on the capital's outskirts wounded a total of 10 others, security officials said.
The attacks come less than two weeks after Iraqi leaders said they would hold talks with the US over a so-called “security training mission” to last beyond 2011, when all 47,000 occupation soldiers must withdraw.
However, resistance figures in Iraq, like Sayyed Moqtada Sadr, vowed that any deal with the US to keep its forces in Iraq would be face by resistance.
