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| Baghdad hit by wave of deadly car bombs | Baghdad hit by wave of deadly car bombs |
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| A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 36 people and injured more than 100, officials say. | A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 36 people and injured more than 100, officials say. |
| Police say the blasts targeted markets and car parks in mainly Shia Muslim districts of the city. | Police say the blasts targeted markets and car parks in mainly Shia Muslim districts of the city. |
| There has been a recent upsurge in sectarian violence, sparking fears of a return to the bloodletting of 2008. | |
| Several dozen people died in a wave of attacks on Sunday, including an explosion at a funeral. | |
| Monday's blasts struck during Baghdad's morning rush hour, with reports of 12 bombs in nine, mainly Shia, neighbourhoods. | |
| One of the deadliest attacks was reported from the eastern Sadr City district where seven people were killed and 75 injured in a crowded vegetable market. | |
| At least 25 people were killed on Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a Shia Muslim mosque south of Baghdad. | |
| Irbil, the normally stable capital of Iraq's autonomous province of Kurdistan, was hit by a series of bombings on the same day, killing six members of the security services. Officials said that violence could be linked to fighting between jihadists and Kurds in Syria. | |
| No-one has claimed responsibility for Monday's attacks, but Sunni Muslim insurgents have been blamed for much of the most recent violence. | |
| More than 4,500 people have been killed so far this year. |