Ten car-bomb explosions killed at least 39 people in Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, police and medical sources told Reuters. Eight people died when two parked cars exploded in the Karada district, while another pair of car bombs near a market in the district of Jihad also killed eight people. "Many cars were burned, pools of blood covered the ground, and glass from car windows and vegetables were scattered everywhere," a witness of an explosion in Sadr City told Reuters. Violence has recently been increasing in the country, particularly as sectarian strife from neighboring Syria spills into Iraq. May was Iraq's deadliest month in six years, with more than 1,000 people killed.
