At least 66 killed in Iraq bombings

At least 66 people died Wednesday in Iraq, mostly in and around the capital Baghdad, said security officials, the latest in an upsurge of attacks in the country, DPA reported. A spate of apparently synchronized car bombings left at least 59 dead and about 150 injured in northern and eastern Baghdad. Most casualties were believed to stem from a bombing in the northern district of Kadhimiya, where four back-to-back car bombs went off. Two other car bombings took place in a marketplace in the district of Jisr Diyala in south-eastern Baghdad. Further deadly blasts were reported in in eastern Baghdad.