Three separate bombings killed at least 19 people in Iraq today, breaking a relative lull in insurgent violence.
The bloodiest attack took place in the Kadhimiya district of central Baghdad, where a suicide bomber strapped with explosives climbed aboard a bus and blew himself up, killing at least 12 people, Interior Ministry sources said.
The attack in the mostly Shia Muslim district wounded at least nine people.
Earlier, at least five people were killed and 21 wounded when a bomb exploded inside a restaurant in the northern city of Mosul, police sources said.
The sources said one policeman and four civilians were killed in the blast near Mosul police headquarters. The restaurant is frequented by police.
A car bomb later exploded near a council building in southeast Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 11.