Violence Continues to Rock Iraq: More than 40 Martyred

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Nine car bombs mainly targeting areas of Baghdad province martyred at least 42 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday, security and medical officials said.

The bombs hit eight different areas.

The deadliest attack took place in Sadr City, where a car bomb blew up near a place where workers had gathered. It killed at least seven people, including two soldiers.
The blasts came a day after a suicide bomber attacked mourners at a mosque south of Baghdad, collapsing the roof and killing 47 people.
The latest bloodshed brings the September death toll to more than 840, according to Agence France Presse figures based on security and medical sources. Upwards of 4,600 people have been killed so far this year.

Hours earlier, a series of bombings has rocked Irbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous province of Kurdistan, killing six members of the security services.
Irbil is in a stable part of Iraq and the region has not witnessed such attacks in the past six years.
A central government spokesman said the violence could be linked to fighting between extremists belonging to the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" and Kurd in Syria.
Reports described a car bomber who rammed a checkpoint leading to a complex housing the interior ministry and a number of security agencies.

A short while later - as emergency services arrived - another bomber struck driving an explosive-rigged ambulance, and gunmen on foot also attacked.
"We were inside the building when there was a huge explosion outside, and when we tried to go out to see what happened it was crowded, and there was shouting everywhere," said Farhan Samed Kamil, an asayesh member who lost two fingers in the attack.
"After a while there was a second explosion. That's all I remember," he told AFP news agency from hospital.

A statement reportedly published on the Kurdistan Regional Government website cited witnesses as saying five would-be suicide bombers had been killed before they were able to blow themselves up. Other official reports suggested four militants had been killed.
Nozad Hadi, the governor of Irbil province, said the victims were members of the Kurdish "asayesh" security services.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team