28 different attacks launched in 19 cities
Baghdad (ANTARA News) - A wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday killed 111 people in the country`s deadliest day in two and a half years after Al-Qaeda warned it would mount new attacks and sought to retake territory.

Officials said at least 235 people were wounded in 28 different attacks launched in 19 cities, shattering a relative calm which had held in the lead-up to the start on Saturday of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

The violence drew condemnation from the United Nations special envoy to Iraq, the country`s parliament speaker, and neighbouring Iran, AFP reporting.

In Monday`s deadliest attack--a string of roadside bombs and a car bomb followed by a suicide attack targeting emergency responders in the town of Taji--at least 42 people were killed and 40 wounded, according to two medical officials.

In Baghdad, meanwhile, a car bomb outside a government office responsible for producing identity papers in the Shiite bastion of Sadr City killed at least 12 people and wounded 33 others, security and medical officials said.

Two explosions in the Baghdad neighbourhoods of Husseiniyah and Yarmuk killed at least four people and wounded 27 others, while a car bomb in the town of Tarmiyah, just north of the capital, killed one and hurt nine, officials said.

Checkpoint shootings and bomb blasts in restive ethnically-mixed Diyala province killed 14 people and left 47 others wounded, security officials and doctor Ahmed Ibrahim from the main hospital in provincial capital Baquba said.

Insurgents also launched attacks on a military base near the town of Dhuluiyah, killing at least 15 soldiers and leaving two others wounded, according to security officials.

Two other attacks in the same province--a checkpoint shooting and a car bomb near a Shiite mosque--left three people dead and six wounded, officials said.

Nine bomb blasts, some of them minutes apart, meanwhile killed seven people and wounded 29 in Kirkuk city and the eponymous province`s towns of Dibis and Tuz Khurmatu.
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