Baghdad, August 10: Two truck bombs killed 17 people and wounded 54 near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, an official in the provincial governor’s office said.
In Baghdad, two car bombs targeting construction workers killed 16 people and wounded 81 in the southwest of the capital, police said.
Last week, a suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi’ite Muslim mosque just outside Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.
The insurgency in Iraq has waned in the last 18 months, but has remained stubborn in Mosul and a few other areas.
–Agencies