08:38 NZDT Fri Mar 1 2013
At least 23 people have died in a day of violence across Iraq.
Bombings in and around Baghdad, including
two car bombs near a football field, have killed at least 23 people,
while three people have been shot dead in north Iraq, security and
medical officials say.
With the latest violence, more than 210 people have been killed and 550 wounded in attacks in February, according to an AFP toll based on security and medical sources.
An interior ministry official said one car bomb exploded near a football field in the Shuala area of Baghdad, followed by a second after security forces arrived at the scene on Thursday.
The blasts killed at least 19 people and wounded another 30, medical officials said.
In Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, a militant detonated a hand grenade when people attempted to arrest him, and five bombs exploded nearby, killing at least two people and wounding at least seven, security and medical officials said.
Two roadside bombs also exploded in the Shurta al-Rabea area of south Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven, while a car bomb in Aziziyah, southeast of Baghdad, killed one person and wounded 17, officials said.
And gunmen killed a commander in the anti-Qaeda Sahwa militia and another militiaman, while a sniper shot dead an Iraqi soldier, both west of the city of Kirkuk in north Iraq, security officials and a doctor said.
No group claimed responsibility for the string of attacks.
The attacks come as Iraq grapples with weeks of anti-government protests centred on Sunni-majority areas in the north and west of the country, calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite.
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With the latest violence, more than 210 people have been killed and 550 wounded in attacks in February, according to an AFP toll based on security and medical sources.
An interior ministry official said one car bomb exploded near a football field in the Shuala area of Baghdad, followed by a second after security forces arrived at the scene on Thursday.
The blasts killed at least 19 people and wounded another 30, medical officials said.
In Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, a militant detonated a hand grenade when people attempted to arrest him, and five bombs exploded nearby, killing at least two people and wounding at least seven, security and medical officials said.
Two roadside bombs also exploded in the Shurta al-Rabea area of south Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven, while a car bomb in Aziziyah, southeast of Baghdad, killed one person and wounded 17, officials said.
And gunmen killed a commander in the anti-Qaeda Sahwa militia and another militiaman, while a sniper shot dead an Iraqi soldier, both west of the city of Kirkuk in north Iraq, security officials and a doctor said.
No group claimed responsibility for the string of attacks.
The attacks come as Iraq grapples with weeks of anti-government protests centred on Sunni-majority areas in the north and west of the country, calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite.
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