Dec 13, 2006, 17:40 GMT
Baghdad - At least 36 people were killed - including two suicide bombers - and 47 wounded Wednesday in several attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk, Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesmen said.
In Kirkuk, nine security forces guarding oil facilities were killed and 13 others were wounded in a double suicide bombing.
Two persons had driven the explosives-laden cars into the gathering of the security troops during the changing of the guard.
A police officer was killed and three were wounded when a roadside bomb targeting their patrol was detonated Wednesday, said police sources.
Police also said that a mortar shell fell on a house in the village of al-Howayja, 54 kilometres west of Kirkuk, killing one woman and her two children and another two children.
In Baghdad, 10 persons were killed and 25 wounded in a blast caused by a vehicle loaded with explosives which had been parked by the side of the road and close to a city mosque in Shiite-dominated al-Kamaliya district.
Two other explosions that were synchronized took place in a busy Baghdad market, killing five people and wounding 10.
Media reports said Wednesday that 20 Palestinians were killed in a mortar attack on al-Baladiyat district in eastern Baghdad, which is mainly inhabited by Palestinians.
Al-Sharqiya television channel reported that the Palestinians in eastern Baghdad are asking the Iraqi government to interfere to stop the mortar attack which took place Wednesday afternoon, but there were no response or explanation from the Iraqi government.
The Iraqi news agency reported that the attack was conducted by the Shiite al-Mahdi army militia on a Palestinian residential complex.
Meanwhile, nine members of one family were murdered by unidentified militants in an attack on their house in the Sunni district of al-Madaen in southern Baghdad.
In a further attack, a renowned Iraqi director, Hussein al- Tikriti, was killed by unidentified militants, Iraq's official television channel al-Iraqiya reported. There were no further details.
Iraqi police said that the death toll of Tuesday's car bomb explosion in al-Bab al-Sharqy had risen to 70 dead and more than 200 wounded, a number of them in critical condition.
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