Reuters/Basra, IraqA string of bomb blasts in predominantly Shia Muslim provinces of Iraq killed at least 24 people yesterday, police and medics said.A suicide bomber killed at least four people in a Shia mosque in the town of Mussayab, and in Kut city, a car bomb went off in a busy market, killing five, police and medics said.Three bombs exploded in quick succession near the headquarters of a Shia political party in the southern oil hub of Basra, 420km southeast of Baghdad, killing at least eight people, police said.“When the first explosion happened, I ran to evacuate the victims. I saw two or three burned bodies before police asked me to step back,” said a man who gave his name only as Alaa. “When police forced me to move away, the second explosion happened.”Two car bombs went off in a market in Nassiriya, 300km southeast of Baghdad, killing two people. Another car bomb killed four at a busy market in the Shia shrine city of Karbala, 80km southwest of Baghdad, police said.On Saturday, two bombings near Sunni mosques in Baghdad killed at least 23 people who had come to pray after breaking their daily fast for Ramadan.More than 300 people have been killed so far in July, according to the violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count.The bloodshed has stoked fears that Iraq is sliding back into all-out conflict, though it has yet to match the sectarian carnage of 2006-07 when monthly death tolls sometimes topped 3,000.