A series of bombs destroyed two Shiite shrines near the volatile city of Baqouba late Saturday. On Sunday, a string of bombings ripped through the Iraqi capital, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 60, police said.
Two British troops died and a third was wounded by a roadside bomb Saturday night as they patrolled in an armored vehicle near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Britain's Ministry of Defense said.
In the deadliest attack Sunday, two suicide car bombings killed 14 Iraqis and injured at least six near the main checkpoint leading to Baghdad's international airport, the U.S. military and Iraqi police said.
In another incident, a blast missed a police patrol in Palestine street, one of the capital's main thoroughfares, but hit a civilian bus. Five people died, including a woman and two children, and a police officer was wounded, police said. A police officer killed in a roadside bomb in northern Baghdad.
A blast in an open market for vegetables and household products in eastern Baghdad, killed four people and wounding 15.
Late Saturday, bombs hidden in a cemetery surrounding the Imam Jabir bin Ali al-Hadi shrine were activated by remote control, leveling the building, said Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi, a provincial police officer. According to the AP, the attack took place in the town of Muqdadiyah, about 13 miles east of Baqouba.
Hours earlier, one or more bombs hidden inside the Tameem shrine went off in a village about 3 miles west of the al-Hadi shrine, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman. Police said the blast destroyed about 80 percent of the building.
"Such acts anger God and hurt the feeling of all honest Iraqis," Adnan al-Rubaie, a Shiite cleric in Baqouba, told the AP.
