30 killed in new wave of bombings

Police said a car bomb went off next to an army patrol in Baghdad’s eastern Shia Ur neighbourhood, killing four and injuring 17.

Car bombs also killed four in the north-eastern Shia district of Binouq and three died in a bombing at a market selling car parts in central Baghdad.

Officials also said a roadside bomb exploded on a police patrol in the largely Shia central commercial district of Karradah, killing three people.

In the largely Sunni area of Azamiyah in the capital’s north, a car bomb was detonated near a military convoy, killing three people, including two soldiers. Another 14 people were injured.

In the northern city of Mosul, a former insurgent stronghold, a suicide bomber killed three when he blew himself up at a police checkpoint.

The attacks came hours after bomb blasts tore through two Baghdad neighbourhoods on Wednesday evening, killing at least 30 people.