Attacks in Iraq including bombings targeting a cafe and mourners killed at least 22 people yesterday, security and medical officials said.
In the deadliest attack, a roadside bomb exploded near a cafe in the Dura area of south Baghdad, killing at least nine people and wounding at least 32.
The blast came a day after a suicide bombing at a cafe in the northern city of Kirkuk killed 41 people and wounded 35.
In the village of Zahra, north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a funeral tent where family members of a deceased Shia man were receiving condolences.
Five people—one civilian and four police—were killed and 10 wounded in the blast, two days after a similar attack in nearby Muqdadiyah killed 10 mourners.
Also yesterday, a roadside bomb in a Shia area of Muqdadiyah killed two people and wounded five, while another exploded when people gathered at the scene, wounding four more.
In Madain, south of Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeted young men playing a game popular during Ramadan, killing two people and wounding at least seven.
In Baquba, north of the capital, gunmen killed a shop owner, while others shot dead an army officer in the northern city of Mosul.
And gunmen killed a soldier and wounded another in Kirkuk.