Bloody Monday for Iraq: 48 die under the bombs

2 bombs targeted a Shiite place of worship Baghdad – Jaafar Al Nasrawi A series of explosions in several northern Iraqi provinces left 48 people dead and another 132 injured on Monday. Three civilians have also been abducted. The reasons for the abductions are not clear yet, officials said.  
In the deadliest blast of the day, six people were killed, including four Iranian nationals. Twenty-five more people were injured in a car bomb targeting a bus of Iranian tourists in southern Tikrit, north of Baghdad. The majority of the victims were women.
Ten people were killed and 25 were injured in a twin car bomb explosion in central Touz, also in the Saladin Province.
Four people were injured in a car bomb near a security checkpoint in southern Tikrit, where five security personnel were also injured in five other blasts targeting police and army patrols.
In south-east Tikrit, five people were injured when a car bomb targeting an army patrol was detonated.
In the north of the city, one person was killed and another injured in a car bomb targeting the motorcade of the assistant-director of the Saladin police.
In Nineveh Province, 250 miles north of Baghdad, seven people were killed and 15 were injured Monday morning in two simultaneous explosions in two different villages.
Gunmen broke into a policeman’s home in Mosul and shot him dead. The judge of the Nineveh Criminal Court escaped an assassination attempt when explosive hidden in his car set off.
In the north-west of Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad, one soldier was injured when an explosive charge targeting an army patrol was detonated.
One civilian was also injured in an armed attack on an army checkpoint in the south-west of Kirkuk, where three civilians were also abducted in a separate incident.
In the province of Diyaly, one civilian was injured when an explosive was detonated in western Baqubah.
In two separate incidents in the east and south of Baqubah, one woman was killed and two soldiers were injured. Three people were injured in a blast caused by an adhesive bomb in yet another incident in the north-east of the city.
One person was also injured in a car bomb near a building site in the south-west of Baqubah and four more people were injured in another blast near a state-run hospital in the north-west of the city.
Also in Baqubah, one civilian was injured in an adhesive bomb blast in the north of city, as two people were injured in an explosive charge blast in the north-east of the city and two more injured in a similar blast in the same area.
In the western province of Anbar, five people were killed and 11 injured the majority of whom policemen in a car bomb in eastern Ramadi.
One civilian was also killed and six others injured due to mortar attacks on residential areas in western Ramadi.
A car bomb was discovered and dismantled near a mosque in downtown Ramadi and one suspect was arrested.
The top local official was also killed in an armed assault near his home in downtown Karbala.
Baghdad was not spared on this black day, as one soldier was killed and another injured in an armed attack on an army checkpoint in the west of the capital.