A spate of powerful car and suicide bombings has killed 44 people and wounded more than 100 in less than 24 hours across Iraq, shattering what had been a relatively calm holy month of Ramadan.
Police in the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, revised the number killed in a suicide attack on a mosque yesterday to 28, with 34 people wounded.
Meanwhile, security and health officials in Baghdad confirmed that a double car bombing this morning killed six people and wounded at least 20 people.
Earlier, a roadside bomb struck a minibus in Baghdad's eastern Kamaliyah district, killing one person and wounding three.
In the Karrada neighbourhood of the capital, another bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding seven people.
And in the southern city of Basra, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the wheel of a car outside the local police headquarters.
Three people, including one police officer, were killed and five others wounded.
Yesterday, a bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a joint Iraqi police and army checkpoint in the centre of the northern town of Tal Afar, killing two policeman, a soldier and three civilians.
The security forces, especially the police, have been widely infiltrated by the Shia militias whose rivalry over control of southern Iraq's largest city has escalated since British forces withdrew earlier this month.
