In the deadliest of Friday’s attacks, 15 Iranians and three Iraqis were killed near the village of Balad Ruz northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the officials said.
The attack, which was carried out by gunmen in three vehicles against pipeline workers, also wounded five Iranians and three Iraqis.
In Madain, south of the capital, a car bomb explosion claimed at least six lives and injured 13 others.
Another car bomb near a fish market in Nahrawan left four people dead and at least 12 more wounded.
Meanwhile, two security guards were killed at a detention facility by “terrorism” suspects, who were trying to escape.
In the Ghazaliyah, a region in the northwest of Baghdad, two people, one of whom a Trade Ministry employee, were shot dead by gunmen.
Armed men also killed a woman in her house near the capital.
In Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a civilian and two soldiers died while four policemen and three other soldiers were injured after an explosives-rigged vehicle detonated near a group of the country’s security forces.
Iraq’s Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Middle Eastern country into chaos.
“The country is currently facing an open war from bloodthirsty sectarian forces that aim to plunge the country into chaos,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on July 30.
Source: Press TV