13 killed in series of blasts across Iraq (AP)

BAGHDAD – A rapid-fire program of explosions in and around Bagdad killed 13 grouping Sunday, including heptad grouping who died when a slayer hero blew himself up in a crowd of personnel officers, officials said.

In total, at small 10 bombs exploded as Iraqis were headed to impact in a reminder of the dangers Iraq still faces despite a drop in hostility since the peak of the war. At small heptad of the dead were personnel officers, who ofttimes are targeted by insurgents hoping to modify the country.

The worst azygos attack came nearby the municipality of Taji, which is 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

Police officers had concentrated after a margin assail targeting a passing American expeditionary convoy blew up. When the personnel arrived on the scene, a slayer hero walked into the crowd and blew himself up, personnel and infirmary officials said.

Five personnel and digit civilians died and 19 people, including 15 policemen, were injured, the officials said.

Earlier in the capital, the beginning of the impact hebdomad was broken by a hurried program of blasts in mostly Muslim neighborhoods.

At most 7 a.m. a automobile assail in a parking lot in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City community exploded, injuring fivesome grouping and damaging individual nearby cars.

"We woke up to a big wind nearby and the render windows in face of the concern were smashed. My teen brother was scraped by glass," said Namiq Khazal, a 30-year-old who lives in Sadr City most 150 yards (meters) from where digit of the blasts went off.

"On my artefact to the infirmary I saw some scraped grouping and individual cars damaged," he added.

Minutes later, also in Sadr City, a assail unseeable in a money of substance exploded, ending digit mortal and harm fivesome more.

Then fivesome transactions after added margin bomb, this time targeting a personnel patrol, exploded; 3 policemen and quaternary bystanders were scraped in that blast.

In the south community of Bayaa, the farewell calm was broken by fivesome explosions that went soured in rapid succession.

First a margin assail targeted a personnel patrol. Then a time after added margin assail went soured in a commercial street followed by digit margin bombs unseeable in a money of substance on a highway.

Finally, a parked automobile assail went soured on a agency that marks the crossing between Bayaa and the adjoining neighborhood.

In total, fivesome grouping were killed in Bayaa, including 2 policemen, and 15 grouping were injured, including sextet policemen, personnel and infirmary officials said. They did not hit a breakdown of where the deaths occurred.

The officials every spoke on condition of obscurity because they were not authorized to intercommunicate to the media.

There was no unmediated verify of responsibility.

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