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Bombs striking targets across Iraq have killed at least 37 people and wounded 90, officials said, in the latest instance of what appeared to be co-ordinated violence. <\/p>\n

The deadliest attack came in the town of Taji, a former al-Qaeda stronghold just north of Baghdad, where three explosive-rigged cars went off within minutes of each other on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Police said eight people died and 28 were injured in the back-to-back blasts that began around 7:15am local time.<\/p>\n

In all, at least 90 people were wounded in the wave of attacks that stretched from the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in Iraq’s north to the southern Shia town of Kut.<\/p>\n

Spokesmen for the government and Baghdad’s military command could not immediately be reached for comment, and no one claimed responsibility for the violence immediately.<\/p>\n

Hakim al-Zamili, a member of parliament’s security and defence committee, said the attacks were a sign al-Qaeda “is still in business”.<\/p>\n

Prison break<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said a deadly weekend prison break in Tikrit in which many al-Qaeda-linked convicts escaped, likely boosted the network’s morale and spurred Sunday’s assault.<\/p>\n

“Al-Qaeda leaders have no intention of leaving this country or letting Iraqis live in peace,” al-Zamili said.<\/p>\n

“Thus, we should expect more attacks in the near future. The situation in Iraq is still unstable … and repetition of such attacks shows that our security forces are still unqualified to deal with the terrorists,” he added.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf, reporting from neighbouring Jordan, said al-Qaeda has been indisputably weakened over the last years.<\/p>\n

“Since the group rose to prominence in the wake of the US invasion, al-Qaeda has made a series of blunders, if you will, that meant that there was far less support for them, even among the communities where you’d expect there to be support,” our correspondent said.<\/p>\n

“The tribes turned against them, they were severely weakened. So it is not the al-Qaeda that we knew, but it is amazingly resilient and it is clearly still there.”<\/p>\n

Shortly after the Taji attacks, police said a suicide bomber set off his explosives-packed car in the Shia neighborhood of Shula in northwest Baghdad.<\/p>\n

One person was killed and seven wounded. Police could not immediately identify the target.<\/p>\n

“So many people were hurt. A leg of a person was amputated,” lamented Shula resident Naeem Frieh. “What have those innocent people done to deserve this?”<\/p>\n

And in Baghdad’s bustling Karradah neighbourhood, a parked car laden with explosives went off next to a police patrol, killing a police officer and a civilian, other officials said.<\/p>\n

Eight other people were injured. The blast was followed minutes later by another parked car bomb as people gathered, killing three civilians and injuring 12 others, they added.<\/p>\n

Secondary bomb blasts targeting those coming to help the wounded are a common insurgent tactic.<\/p>\n

An Associated Press cameraman was knocked to the ground in the second explosion and an AP photographer was slightly injured.<\/p>\n

Police officers targeted<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the country, another suicide bomber drove a minibus into a security checkpoint in Kut, located 160 kilometres southeast of Baghdad.<\/p>\n

Three police officers were killed and five wounded, general Hussein Abdul-Hadi Mahbob said.<\/p>\n

And in Iraq’s north, another policeman was killed when security forces were trying to defuse a car bomb parked on the main highway between the cities of Kirkuk and Tuz Khormato, said Kirkuk police chief general Sarhad Qadir.<\/p>\n

A second policeman was wounded in the blast, Qadir said.<\/p>\n

In mid-morning, another parked car bomb went off next to a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in the town of Madain, killing three Iraqis and injuring 11 others including seven Iranians, another police officer and health official said.<\/p>\n

In the town of Balad Ruz, 75 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, a parked car bomb targeted a passing police patrol, killing two policemen and injuring seven others, a police officer and health official said.<\/p>\n

And in the nearby town of Khan Bani Saad, yet another parked car bomb exploded near a market and killed one civilian and injured nine others, they added.<\/p>\n

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in the town of Tarmiyah, 50 kilometres north of Baghdad, when their patrol hit a roadside bomb, another police officer and health official said. Six other people, including four civilians were wounded.<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, the Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda, also called the Islamic State of Iraq, launched a campaign dubbed “Breaking the Walls,” which aimed at retaking strongholds from which it was driven by the American military.<\/p>\n

Violence has dropped since the height of Iraq’s bloodshed a few years ago, but Iraqi forces have failed to stop the attacks that continue to claim lives almost daily.<\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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