Bombings, shootings kill 111 in Iraq

Iraqi security and medical sources said a total of more than 235 people were injured in the attacks on Monday.

At least 42 people were killed in a series of bombings in the town of Taji, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) north of Baghdad.

Gunmen carried out an attack on a military base east of the town of Dhuluiyah, north of the capital, at 5:00 a.m. local time (0200 GMT), killing 15 Iraqi soldiers.

Three people were also killed in two bomb attacks in the neighborhoods of Husseiniyah and Yarmuk in Baghdad, and a car bombing carried out in the Shia neighborhood of Sadr City at 9:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT) killed at least 12 people.

In Kirkuk and the towns of Tuz Khurmatu and Dibis in Kirkuk Province, bomb attacks killed seven people, the sources said.

A woman was also killed in a car bombing near a mosque in the town of Dujail in Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad.

Meanwhile, security officials in the city of Baqouba, the capital of Diyala Province, said 11 people, including Iraqi soldiers, were killed in checkpoint shootings and bomb attacks in the province.

At least another 20 people were killed in different acts of violence in Iraq on Monday.

The latest attacks in Iraq marked the deadliest day in the country in two years.

Only in June, nearly 200 people were killed and scores of others injured in similar attacks across Iraq.

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