Dozens killed in Iraq car bombings

Dozens of people have died in a new wave of bombings in Iraq.

Officials say several car bombs exploded tonight in the volatile northern city of Mosul, killing at least 11 and wounding dozens.

The blasts follow a string of bombings earlier in the day that killed a total of 25 others, extending a spike in violence that is raising fears Iraq is spiralling into a new round of sectarian violence.

Police in Mosul said a suicide bomber rammed his car into a police post, killing seven police and one civilian. In another attack, a bomber detonated his vehicle at a security checkpoint, killing three. Officials were unable to provide casualty tolls for the other Mosul attacks.

Hospital officials confirmed the death tolls.

Earlier back-to-back car bombings in a market in central Iraq left many dead.

A police officer said three parked car bombs exploded virtually simultaneously, tearing through a wholesale vegetable and fruit market in the town of Jidaidat al-Shatt in Diala province, just outside the provincial capital of Baqouba some 35 miles north east of Baghdad.