At least 34 people were killed and dozens others were wounded Thursday in a spate of bomb attacks that rocked different provinces in Iraq.
Scores of people were killed and wounded Thursday in a spate of bomb attacks that rocked different provinces in Iraq.
Thursday attacks were the deadliest day in Iraq since March 20, when shootings and bombings claimed by Al-Qaeda group killed 50 people and wounded 255 nationwide.
17 people were killed and 63 were injured as bombings hit in and around Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.
A car bomb targeting Health Minister Majid Hamed Amin's convoy in Haifa Street in the heart of the capital, killed two civilians and wounded nine people, including four of the minister's guards.
Another car bomb in the Al-Amil neighbourhood of south Baghdad killed two people and wounded 17.
Two people were killed and four wounded in a car bomb against a checkpoint in Palestine Street in the east of the capital, while a fourth car bomb in Kadhimiyah killed two people and wounded seven.
A car bomb against a Turkmen social club on Palestine Street killed two people and wounded six, and a roadside bomb in Zafraniyah in central Baghdad wounded six.
In Taji, north of the capital, two roadside bombs killed one person and wounded five, while two car bombs and a suicide bombing killed five people and wounded 17.
In Tarmiyah, also north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle by an army base, killing one soldier and wounding two.
In northern Iraq, bombings in Kirkuk province killed nine people and wounded 24, high-ranking police officers said.
A car bomb against the convoy of police Brigadier General Taha Salaheddin in the south of Kirkuk city killed two police and wounded 15 other people.
Another car bomb in the city center killed two police and wounded three, a high-ranking police officer said on condition of anonymity.
Six bombs against houses in the town of Malha, 40 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk, killed five people and wounded six, police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader said.
And in Ramadi in Anbar province, west of the capital, two car bombs against police patrols killed one person and wounded nine, a police source said.
In Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, a suicide bomber blew himself up in home of police First Lieutenant Mohammed al-Tamimi, killing him and wounding four family members, an Iraqi army lieutenant colonel and Dr Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba General Hospital said.
A suicide car bomb against a police checkpoint in the city center killed two policemen and wounded two other people.
Another policeman was killed by gunmen in the town of Al-Mansuriyah north of Baquba, while a bomb against a home in the town wounded three people.
A bomb targeting a home in Ghalbiyah, west of Baquba, also wounded three people.
In Samarra in Salaheddin province, two car bombs exploded near checkpoints of an anti-Qaeda militia, killing three people and wounding six, militia commander Majid Abdullah and a police lieutenant colonel said.
And a bomb in a restaurant in the main northern city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, wounded three people, a police captain said.
