At least 30 people were killed and 99 injured in attacks that shook different parts of Iraq on Thursday, security sources said. In northern Iraq, 25 people died 43 were injured in a truck bombing in eastern Mosul. The vehicle blew up early morning in Kurdish-dominated Wardak village, security sources said. Security forces defused a nearby second truck bomb before it could be detonated, the source added. The explosion damaged more than 12 houses.
Located 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, Mosul and its environs are the most ethnically and religiously diverse of Iraq's regions and have been the scene of numerous deadly attacks. Four people were killed and 33 injured in three subsequent blasts in southern Baghdad, a police source said, adding that the bombs went off simultaneously in a popular marketplace in the al-Mahmoudiya area. Two policemen were injured in a bicycle bomb attack in al-Karada district in central Baghdad. A civilian was killed and 21 others injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a crowded market in the southern Hilla city.