Series of blasts kill 14 in Iraq, wound dozens

A series of attacks in the Iraqi capital and to its north killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 50 others yesterday, security and medical officials said.
A car bomb in a popular Baghdad market killed eight people and wounded 30, while another killed two people and wounded 15 in Taji, 25 kilometres north of the capital, the officials said.
Further north, in the city of Samarra, gunmen killed two anti-Qaeda militiamen and wounded two more at a roadblock, the officials added.
Yesterday's deaths brought to more than 200 the number of people killed in Iraq since June 13 -- more than were killed in all of May.