Iraq bombings, shootings kill at least 34

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..A wave of bombing and shooting attacks in six different provinces across Iraq killed at least 34 people and wounded more than 100 on Thursday, security officials said.

It was the deadliest day in Iraq since March 20, when shootings and bombings claimed by Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq killed 50 people and wounded 255 nationwide.

Bombings in and around Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded 63, 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, a Shiite shrine district in north Baghdad, 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 centre 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 kilometres 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 centre 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.

Violence in Iraq has fallen sharply from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks still continue across the country. In March, 112 Iraqis were killed, government figures showed.

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Urgent .. seven explosions rock the capital in Baghdad, leaving behind dozens of dead and wounded

Ali Aldhargam - 19/04/2012 PM - 9:41 | Hits: 337

Rocked Baghdad this morning, seven explosions in different parts of them, leaving behind scores of dead and wounded.

The source said the security official told News} {Euphrates today that "the first explosion was an improvised explosive device exploded on the underlined text for workers in the Amil district of southwest Baghdad that have killed a civilian and wounding six others."

He said either "second explosion was in the Ghazaliya west of Baghdad where a bomb exploded at two gunmen while they were planting them," adding that "the explosion Third Event in an area Kadhimiya yard Abdul Mohsen al-Kazimi car bomb near a hotel, killing killing two and wounding seven others injured ".

The source pointed out that the security "fourth explosion was in the area of ​​Tarmiyah during a suicide car bomb exploded at an Iraqi army headquarters, killing one military personnel and wounding two others differently."

He noted that "the explosion was the fifth car bomb exploded on the procession of the Ministry of Health in the courtyard of the Pioneers, which led to the death of two employees and wounding four others."

Between the source and the security that the "two bombs exploded in the Taji area were planted on the road and detonated led to the death of one of the citizens and the wounding of two others, as an explosion on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, we could not find out the losses."

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