Baghdad bombings kill at least 16 A SERIES of bombings have struck Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, officials say, a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed to press a campaign against militants. Security forces have carried out major operations against Iraqi militants in recent weeks, but despite the military action, the worst violence to hit Iraq in five years continues to ravage the country. The four car bombs and a roadside bomb struck four different areas of Baghdad on Thursday morning, also wounding more than 50 people. In the single deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded at a bus station in the Kadhimiyah area of north Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 24. Another car bomb exploded in Baladiyat near an office of Al-Ahad television, which is affiliated with Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a Shi'ite militant group that split from powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. The violence came a day after attacks, including a blast at a cafe north of the capital, killed 17 people. On Wednesday, Maliki said security forces would continue large-scale efforts to hunt militants. "The operation that we started in chasing terrorists, and those who stand behind them, will continue until we protect our people," Maliki said. He said more than 800 alleged militants had been detained and dozens of others killed, and that security forces had destroyed militant infrastructure used to make car bombs and seized a large amounts of weapons and explosives.