An Iraqi soldier steps over wreckage of a car bomb at the site of an attack in Baghdad’s Sadr City. (file photo)<\/p>\n
At least 16 people have been killed in a fresh wave of violence in Iraq, one day after multiple bomb blasts left over 60 people dead in the country.\n<\/p>\n
The deadliest attack occurred when gunmen broke into the house of an anti-terrorism police captain in a southern suburb of Baghdad on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
The armed men killed Captain Adnan Ibrahim, his wife and two children, aged eight and 10. The attackers fled the scene, and killed another policeman who tried to stop them at a nearby checkpoint.\n<\/p>\n
A car bomb detonated near a small market in the town of Latifiyah south of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 12.\n<\/p>\n
Separately, one policeman was killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in a northern suburb of Baghdad.\n<\/p>\n
In the south, gunmen shot dead a cleric identified as Assad Nassir, as he was leaving his house in Basra, police said.\n<\/p>\n
Two Iraqi soldiers were also killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb struck a group of soldiers arriving to inspect the scene of an explosion that took place earlier in the northern city of Mosul.\n<\/p>\n
In the western province of al-Anbar, a bomb placed under stalls in a small stadium killed four people in the provincial city of Ramadi.\n<\/p>\n
On Friday, at least 12 civilians were killed and 30 others injured in two car bombings in Baghdad\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s eastern neighborhood of Kamaliya and Sadr City, also in the east of the capital.\n<\/p>\n
At least 41 people were also killed and many others injured after twin bombings outside a mosque in the city of Baqouba, north of Baghdad. Eight others were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Madain, which is located south of the Iraqi capital.\n<\/p>\n
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