Deadly Baghdad car bombs kill and injure dozens

At least 14 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in a series of car bomb attacks in Iraq.

Reports say the attacks happened in and around Baghdad, with at least eight people killed when a car bomb exploded outside a market in a mainly Shia district of the capital. A dawn car bomb also targeted a government building in the nearby predominantly Sunni city of Taji. June has been a particularly violent month in Iraq. Nearly 200 people have now reportedly been killed there since 13 June alone, far higher than the figure for May. Hospital and police sources said Thursday’s car bomb at a market in the predominantly Shia Muslim district of Washash had killed at least eight people and wounded 30 others.