BAGHDAD (UPI) -- Six car bombs exploded in separate locations in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq, Monday killing 12 Iraqis and wounding 44 others, Iraqi police officials said.
A car bomb in Baghdad injured two Iraqi commandos and then, 10 minutes later, another car bomb was detonated outside a Baghdad building killing nine Iraqi civilians and wounding 12 others, said an official with Baghdad's emergency police.
The leader of Baghdad's commando forces, Maj.Gen. Rasheed Aflayeh, was involved in one of the incidents, but was unharmed, an official said told CNN.
Some two hours later another car bomb exploded in Baghdad, taking the lives of two Iraqi police officers and injuring 11 other officers. An Iraqi army convoy was also bombed wounding four people.
Other bombings in Mosul killed a child and wounded 15 civilians, according to U.S. military officials.
The violence followed a bloody Sunday when insurgents using car bombs struck a Kurdish funeral near Mosul and U.S. soldiers handing out candy to children in Baghdad. Those attacks killed at least 35 Iraqis and wounded 80, the New York Times reported.
The attacks have expanded since the government was formed Thursday, marking the bloodiest three-day period of violence in two months.
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