**A wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed dozens of people and wounded more than 100.**One report says at least 56 people died in the attacks, which officials say mostly occurred near Shia mosques around the time of Friday prayers.
No group has said it carried out the bombings. Al-Qaeda and other Sunni militant groups have in the past targeted Shia mosques.
Earlier attacks killed seven people near Khalidya in Anbar province.
In those attacks, at least six home-made bombs were planted among several houses belonging to police officers and a judge.
It is not known if the judge and the police officers were killed, but relatives of both were casualties.
The bombings come less than a week after Iraqi and US forces said they killed the three high-ranking al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders. The organisation is blamed for many of the bloodiest bomb attacks in recent years.
Anbar province, a vast area to the west of Baghdad stretching to the Syrian, Jordanian and Saudi Arabian borders, is more peaceful now than it was a few years ago, when it was at the centre of Iraq’s Sunni insurgency.
But relatively small-scale bombings of this kind are still common and often blamed on - but rarely claimed by - al-Qaeda or its affiliates, says the BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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