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Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Mahmudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, on Monday. Three car bombs killed at least 11 people and wounded 38 in Mahmudiya, police said.
By NBC News wire services
Updated at 4:12 a.m. ET: BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A wave of bombings and an attack on an?Iraqi military based?killed at least 82 people on Monday. The death toll made it the bloodiest day of the year in the country, The Associated Press reported.?
More than 100 others were wounded, police and hospital sources said.
The attacks in the capital, in the suburban Baghdad towns of Taji and Hussainya, and around the northern city of Kirkuk appeared coordinated and were aimed mostly at government officials and security forces.
Bombs were planted around five houses in Taji, a Sunni town 12 miles north of the capital, killing at least 17, police said.
When rescue workers rushed to the scene to help, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-rigged belt, killing 11 police officers.
All of the?officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
On Sunday, car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the city of Najaf killed a total of 20 people and wounded 80, police and hospital sources said.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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