Suicide bombers have attacked an Iraqi police station killing eight officers in the deadliest of a series of attacks across across the country that killed at least 29 people.

Bomb blasts in two areas of Iraq today left at least 49 people dead and dozens more wounded.

A parked car exploded near a market in central Baghdad on today, killing at last 11 people and wounding about 40, police said.

A suicide truck bomber struck a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad today, killing as many as 121 people among the crowd buying food for evening meals, one of the most devastating attacks in the capital since the war started.