A spate of bombs have gone off in cities across Iraq killing more than 60 people.

In Diyala, 60km north of Baghdad, province a car bomb exploded near a crowd of people outside a courthouse killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, according to Iraqi officials.

Women and children were present “when a car bomb exploded outside the main courthouse in Baquba at around 11.30am 0830 GMT],” a police official said on Tuesday.

Medical officials said many of the dead were charred beyond recognition and people were crowding the local hospital trying to identify the remains of relatives…

…In the second deadly attack of the day, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a restaurant in Ramadi in Anbar province, killing at least 13 people, the city’s police chief said…

…In a separate incident, security officials in Baghdad said that at least two people were killed and two others wounded by a roadside bomb planted near a police station in Baghdad’s central Karrada neighborhood….

…Since Monday, more than 80 people have been killed in attacks across Iraq, which come at a time security forces are fighting street battles with Shia fighters in Baghdad’s Sadr City.

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