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BAGHDAD (AP) Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including an attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to kill army officers, killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens Thursday, officials said.
Police said gunmen shot dead the five off-duty army officers after stopping their car on a road just north of Baghdad. They said gunmen ordered the officers, who held ranks from lieutenant to colonel, out of the car and then shot them.
Militants have used fake checkpoints, as well as stolen police and military vehicles, to launch attacks in the past.
The day's first explosion came from a bomb-laden car left in a parking lot in Karrada, a busy commercial area home to several government offices, as well as courts and a hospital. The explosion killed four civilians and three police officers and wounded 21, a police officer said.
A few minutes later, a suicide bomber with an explosives belt blew himself up at the main gate of an office affiliated with the Higher Education Ministry, killing two police officers and two civilians, the police officer said. The attack wounded 12, he said.
Shortly before nightfall, police said a car bomb near an outdoor market killed eight people and wounded 17 in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.
Meanwhile, police said gunmen stormed the house of an anti-al-Qaida Sunni fighter in the town of Youssifiyah, killing the Sunni fighter along with his wife, son, sister and a cousin. Youssifiyah is 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad.
Insurgents frequently attack members of the Sunni militia, known also as Sahwa, which joined forces with U.S. troops at the height of the Iraq war to fight al-Qaida.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures for the attacks. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists.
Since last year, Iraq has been seeing the worst level of violence since the nation emerged from the Shiite-Sunni bloodletting in 2008. The United Nations says violence killed 8,868 people in 2013, and killed more than 1,400 people in January and February of this year.
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Attacks Around Iraq's Capital Kill 29 People
This picture taken on May 13, 2014 shows smoke billowing from the site of a car explosion in Baghdad's northern Shiite-majority district of Sadr City.
The attacks were the worst in unrest that left 25 people dead nationwide, part of a protracted spike in bloodshed as officials tally votes from Iraq's April 30 parliamentary election.
The authorities have blamed a variety of external factors for the violence, such as the civil war in neighbouring Syria, but critics say the Shiite-led government must do more to reach out to disgruntled minority Sunnis in order to undermine support for militancy.
In Thursday's deadliest attack, militants assaulted a court in central Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding dozens. Twin suicide bombings, one of which involved an attacker setting off a car bomb, came minutes apart during morning rush hour in the commercial district of Karrada, near a crossroads that is the site of a hospital, a police headquarters and the court complex.
"What happened near the Karrada court was an attempt by terrorists to break into the court," said Baghdad security spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan, adding that security forces had "foiled" the assault.
Maan also added that "we lost some security forces" in the first blast, and said the overall toll could have been higher still had security personnel not killed a third suicide attacker.
Ambulances rushed to the scene of the attacks as smoke rose above the city, while security forces closed off nearby roads, worsening already tight morning gridlock.
- Off-duty officers murdered -
Elsewhere in Baghdad on Thursday, a car bomb near a row of shops in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood killed at least four people, while violence outside the capital left 11 dead.
In Salaheddin province, militants seized a vehicle transporting five off-duty army officers in civilian clothes and killed them, officials said.
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