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Baghdad shaken by fresh bombings Iraq hit by fresh wave of attacks
(about 5 hours later)
Iraqi police say early morning bomb attacks have killed at least 11 people in different areas of Baghdad. At least 21 people have been killed and 75 people wounded in a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq, police say.
A car bomb exploded on the road to the government compound known as the Green Zone killing at least five people. Three students on their way to sit exams, three Iraqi soldiers and a four-year-old child were reported to be among the dead.
Another attack in the eastern Sadr City area killed three students on a minibus as they were on their way to an exam. More than 70 people were killed and 200 wounded by a massive truck bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday - the deadliest single bomb this year.
The rush-hour explosions come days before US troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi cities under a security pact with the Iraqi government. The attacks come days before US troops pull out of Iraq's towns and cities.
Reports say at least 62 people have been injured in Monday's bombings. With so many attacks in such a short space of time, it appears insurgents are determined to make things look as unstable as possible as the pull-out deadline approaches, the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says.
In addition to the explosions in Karrada and Sadr City, which was caused by a roadside bomb in Hamza Square, there was another roadside bombing in Shaab neighbourhood in north-east Baghdad which killed three people and wounded another 30. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki urged Iraqis on Saturday: "Don't lose heart if a breach of security occurs here or there."
There are also early reports of a suicide attack west of Baghdad, although details were not immediately available. He said the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq's towns and cities by the end of this month would be a "great victory".
Attacks in and around Baghdad are common, despite an overall drop in violence in Iraq. Ending operations
On Saturday, a bomb attack near the northern city of Kirkuk killed 72 people - the deadliest in Iraq for more than a year - and injured another 200. Monday's deadliest attack was caused by a suicide car bomb at municipal offices in Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad. Seven people died and 13 were wounded, police said.
The US plans to withdraw its troops from Iraqi cities and major towns by 30 June, and is due to end combat operations across Iraq by September 2010, leaving Iraqi security forces to cope alone. A roadside bomb tore through a minibus carrying students to sit their exams in Baghdad's Shia neighbourhood of Sadr City.
There are concerns that anti-US insurgents may try to take advantage of the withdrawal, although the country's leaders say Iraqi forces are capable of handling internal security without US support. Three students died and 12 others as well as the driver were wounded in the rush-hour attack.
Another roadside bomb killed three people and wounded 30 near a market in the Shaab district of north Baghdad. A woman and a four-year-old child were among the dead, the AFP news agency reports.
Five people were killed and 20 wounded by a parked car bomb in central Baghdad's Karrada district.
Three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Diyala province, north-east of Iraq.
Most of the 133,000 US troops are due to have moved from Iraq's cities and towns to military bases by 30 June.
The withdrawal is part of an agreement that will see combat operations across Iraq end by September 2010 and all US troops out of the country by the end of 2011.