Iraq: 11 car bombs hit Bagdad killing 54 people while security forces killed 10 militants
Attacks mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Iraq killed at least 54 people on Monday, while security forces killed 10 militants, officials said, as the interior ministry warned of civil war.
More than 800 people have now been killed in violence so far this month, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources–an average of upwards of 27 a day.
And more than 3,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the year, a surge in unrest that the Iraqi government has failed to stem.
On Monday, 11 car bombs hit nine different areas of Baghdad, seven of them with Shiite-majorities, while another exploded in Mahmudiyah south of the capital.