NEARLY 40 people have died in a rash of car bombings in Iraq’s capital in the space of 12 hours, including four co-ordinated blasts early yesterday in central Baghdad that killed 15 and wounded 28 more, police said.

Nearly 40 people have died in a rash of car bombings in Iraq’s capital in the space of 12 hours, including four co-ordinated blasts early today in central Baghdad that killed 15 and wounded 28 more, police said.

Two car bombs killed at least 15 and wounded 28 more, including a boy who appeared to have lost a leg, in a co-ordinated attack on a central Baghdad shopping district early today.