DHAKA: Ten cars rigged with explosives blew up in predominantly Shia Muslim areas in and around Baghdad on Sunday, and a suicide bomber attacked soldiers queuing up for their pay in northern Iraq, killing 49 people in total.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for any of the blasts, but Shia are seen as apostates by hardline Sunni Islamists linked with Al Qaeda, which has been regaining momentum this year.

Soldiers and security personnel are also prime targets for Sunni militants seeking to destabilise Iraq`s Shia-led government.

Sunday’s deadliest attack took place in the northern city of Mosul, when a man driving a car blew himself up outside a government bank where soldiers were waiting to collect their salaries, police said, reports The Straits Times.

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