66 dead and 238 wounded in attacks across Iraq

Killed at least 66 Iraqis and wounded more than 250 injured in a series of simultaneous attacks across the country on Monday morning, including two blasts in the city of Kut southeast of Baghdad that killed 40 people, security sources and medical.The highest rate of victims fall in a single day this year, it is also the biggest since the attacks killed 58 people in March 29 at the headquarters in the province of Tikrit.And signed the biggest attacks in Kut (160 km) southeast of Baghdad, killing 40 people and wounded 65 wounded in explosions on packed arena downtown.The security officials said a bomb exploded in Kut, followed by a car bomb when security forces arrived to the scene.Khamis said Saad administrative agent for the Iraqi Ministry of Health said hospitals still receive the victims, but he added that the situation is under control.Were characterized by relatively calm since Kut in August last year when a suicide car bomber killed 30 policemen and destroyed a police station.Among the cities targeted by the attacks, Baghdad, Baquba, Tikrit, Najaf, Karbala and Mosul.The attack took place in Khan Bani Saad, about 30 km northeast of Baghdad.He said a police official said two people attacked a unit of the Iraqi Counterterrorism Force in Tikrit, 150 km north of Baghdad, killing at least two policemen and wounded six in a failed attempt to release prisoners from Al Qaeda.Said Capt. Jassim al-Jubouri anti-terror unit officer in Tikrit said one attacker detonated his explosives in the hope of killing a senior officer from the anti-terrorism officers either killed the other was shot dead during the attack.In the city of Najaf, authorities said at least three people were killed and 19 others wounded when two car bombs exploded.Captain Hadi al-Najafi in Najaf, said the attacks targeted a building of the police.

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