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Eleven car bombs mainly targeting Shia-majority areas of Baghdad province killed more than 50 people and wounded more than 170 on Monday, security and medical officials said.
The deadliest attacks hit Kadhimiyah, a mainly Shia area of north Baghdad, where two car bombs killed at least seven people and wounded at least 19.
Militants have carried out a string of sectarian attacks in central Iraq, raising the specter of a return to the all-out Sunni-Shia conflict that peaked in 2006 and 2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.
The blasts came a day after a suicide bomber attacked mourners at a Shia mosque south of Baghdad, collapsing the roof and killing 47 people.
On Friday, bombs exploded near two Sunni mosques in Baghdad as worshippers left after prayers, killing six people.
Another bombing targeted Sunni mourners in Baghdad on Sept. 23, killing 15 people, and an attack on a Sunni funeral killed 12 the day before.
Bombings targeting Shia mourners killed 73 people in Baghdad on Sept. 21, and two blasts at a Sunni mosque north of the capital killed 18 the day before that.
The latest bloodshed brings the September death toll to more than 850, according to figures from the news agency AFP, based on security and medical sources. Upwards of 4,600 Iraqis have been killed so far this year.
Wire services
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