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BBC News Middle East
15 April 2013 Last updated at 10:20 GMT
Iraq deadly bombings hit Nasariyah, Kirkuk and Baghdad
At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded in a
series of early morning explosions in cities across Iraq, officials say.
Attacks were reported in Baghdad, as well as Tuz Khurmatu and Kirkuk in the
north and Nasariyah in the south.
The co-ordinated attacks occurred during the morning rush hour and mainly
involved car bombs.
The violence comes ahead of Iraq's provincial elections on 20 April, the first
in the country since 2010.
Monday's attacks were particularly broad in scope, with several cities hit,
including Fallujah, Tikrit, Samarra and Hilla.
The explosions were caused by dozen of cars packed with explosives and three
roadside bombs, AFP news agency reported.
Three car bombs went off minutes apart in Tuz Khurmatu, killing six people and
wounding 60, AFP reported.
A number of attacks were also reported in Baghdad.
In one incident, two car bombs claimed two lives and wounded 17 at a checkpoint
at the heavily guarded airport, Reuters reported.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, nine people were killed when six car bombs went
off simultaneously, police said.
Three of the bombs exploded in Kirkuk's city centre - one in an Arab district,
one in a Kurdish area, and a third in a Turkomen district, Associated Press
reported.
Other blasts were reported elsewhere in the city, which is home to a mix of
ethnic groups with competing claims.
Elsewhere, gunmen armed with pistols fitted with silencers shot and killed a
police officer while he was driving his car in the town of Tarmiyah, 30 miles
(50 km) north of Baghdad, AP said.
No group has admitted carrying out Monday's attacks.
But they come at a time when tensions are high between Iraq's Sunni and Shia,
amid claims by the majority Sunni Muslim communities that they are being
marginalised by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's Shia-led government.
Sunni Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda have attempted to destabilise the
government by stepping up attacks, mainly on Shia but also Sunni targets this
year.
Although violence has decreased in Iraq since the peak of the insurgency in
2006 and 2007, bombings are still common.
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