A wave of eight car bombs and a shooting in Iraq killed at least 13 people and wounded 33 on Sunday, security and medical officials told AFP.

A wave of eight car bombs and a shooting in Iraq killed at least 13 people and wounded 33 on Sunday, security and medical officials told AFP.

With the latest violence, at least 233 people have been killed and 734 wounded in attacks in Iraq this month, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources.

The news agency quoted an interior ministry official and a medical source as saying that four car bombs exploded on Sunday in Taji, north of Baghdad, killing at least six people and wounding eight others.

A car bomb targeting a police convoy killed two policemen and wounded seven others in Baquba, further north, while another car bomb exploded near the city, killing one person and wounding seven, a police officer and a medical source said.

Gunmen killed a policeman in Baghdad, and a car bomb exploded after a police patrol came to investigate, killing one person and wounding four others, the interior ministry official said, while a medical source put the toll at three dead and four wounded.

In Kut, south of Baghdad, a car bomb killed a police captain and a major and wounded seven other people, among them two police, a police captain and a medical source said.

The violence comes after 102 prisoners, including 47 convicted members of Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq, escaped from a prison in Tikrit, after a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the jail late Thursday.

The prison was later assaulted by gunmen and 16 security force personnel were killed in clashes.

The interior ministry said on Friday night that four of the fugitives had been killed and 23 captured, as Iraqi forces continue to hunt for the others.