More than 40 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul. Around 200 others were injured.
The deadliest incident was a double truck bombing, in the village of a small Shiite ethnic minority in Mosul.
Police there have put the death toll at 30, with more than 100 wounded.
The powerful blasts occurred when two trucks loaded with explosives detonated early on Monday.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack yet But police say it has the hallmarks of al-Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni insurgents who remain active in Mosul and surrounding areas.
And it was just the beginning of a series of blasts.
In Baghdad one bomb exploded in a pile of rubbish near a group of construction workers. Seven people were killed and some 50 wounded.
About 10 minutes later, a car bomb targeted construction workers in western Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 35.
Another bomb exploded 30 minutes later in Karrada in downtown Baghdad, wounding 4 people.
That was followed a few hours later by two more roadside bombs in Baghdad one in southwestern Baghdad and the other in eastern Baghdad. These bombs wounded six people.
And another blast in Baghdad's Turath neighborhood killed two people and injured 14 others.
(CCTV August 11, 2009)
