(16 Aug 2012) STORYLINE:
Six people were killed and at least 41 were wounded in five separate bombings in central and northern Iraq early on Thursday, authorities said, in the latest wave of relatively small but recurrent strikes by militants seeking to undermine the government.
Three of the attacks occurred in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
In the second of the three blasts, a bomb in a parked car went off near restaurants, killing one and wounding 15.
"We told police there was no owner of this car," said an eyewitness. "They replied that he might be at a restaurant. As they left, the car exploded killing two people and wounding another one."
Another parked car bomb targeting a police patrol followed, injuring two policemen and two civilian bystanders.
Earlier in the day, insurgents attacked the house of a military officer by planting four bombs around it, killing one and injuring six others from his family, Kirkuk's police commander said.
The military officer escaped unharmed.
Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometres) north of Baghdad, is home to a combustible mix of Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Turkomen who all claim rights to the city and the oil-rich lands around it.
Elsewhere, in Baghdad's northeastern and mostly Shiite neighbourhood of Husseiniyah, a parked car erupted in an explosion that killed three people.
Eight others were injured, two police officers said.
The target was unknown.
Just north of the capital, in the Sunni city of Taji, yet another parked car bomb went off next to a passing police patrol, killing one person.
Eight people, including police and civilian bystanders, were wounded, two other policemen said.
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