On Saturday U.S. Army soldiers visit the site of a truck bombing near Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 21, 2009. A truck bombing struck on Saturday near a Shiite mosque following prayers, police said, making it the deadliest blast in nearly two months. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)27 Killed In Iraq Attacks As US Pullback Looms -- AFP
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Twenty-seven people were killed on Monday as a spate of attacks hit Iraq just days before US troops are due to pull out of Iraq's cities, security officials said.
Seventy-six people were also wounded in the attacks in Baghdad and other restive parts of the country, with the death toll from attacks in the past three days topping 100.
Security and hospital officials said the dead included five Iraqi soldiers, two policemen, three university students on their way to sit their final exams, and a four-year-old child.
In the deadliest single strike, seven people were killed in a car bombing that targeted municipal offices in Abu Ghraib, a town on Baghdad's western outskirts that is notorious as the site of the 2006 scandal over the abuse of prisoners by US jailers.
The attack also wounded 16 people, including three US soldiers.
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