A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 49 people and wounded dozens more on Wednesday.
A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 49 people and wounded dozens more on Wednesday.
The deadliest attacks occurred in the central Iraq city of Hilla, where two car bombs killed 19 people and wounded 48 others, according to a police captain and doctor Ali al-Khafaji in the city's hospital.
In the Baghdad area, at least 18 people died in a spate of nine bombings and two shootings which also left dozens of people wounded, security and medical officials said.
A medical official said that an attack in Karrada in central Baghdad killed 16 people and wounded 32 others, while another attack in Nahrawan on the outskirts of the city killed two people and wounded eight others.
An interior ministry official meanwhile put the toll from attacks in and around the Iraqi capital at 21 killed and 60 wounded.
Five people were killed in a wave of attacks in Baquba, north of Baghdad.
"There was a series of attacks with nine roadside bombs in different areas on the outskirts of Baquba, which killed four people and wounded seven," a police colonel said.
Gunmen also attacked a house north of Baquba, killing a father and wounding his wife and three children, while a car bomb against a police patrol in the city wounded four police, the colonel said.
A medical source in Baquba hospital confirmed the toll.
In Balad, north of Baghdad, five people were killed and 30 wounded in two car bombs, a police lieutenant colonel said.
The toll was confirmed by a local government official, who said one of the car bombs exploded near the local headquarters of the Shiite endowment.
A car bomb in Al-Azizyah, south of Baghdad, killed two people and wounded at least two others, a police captain and a medical source said.
And a car bomb 10 kilometers north of Karbala in central Iraq wounded 24 people, a health ministry official said.
Another car bomb in the restive north Iraq city of Mosul wounded three people, a police second lieutenant and a medical source at the Hamdaniyah hospital said.
