Baghdad hit by wave of deadly car bombings BAGHDAD - A wave of car bombings hit the Iraq capital on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 70 as violence surges in the country amid an escalating political crisis a month after the U.S. military withdrawal. At least 170 people have died in attacks since the beginning of the year, many of them Shiite pilgrims attending religious commemorations. Baghdad bombs kill 11 as Iraq violence surges UK hostage's body turned over to embassy in Iraq Iraq bomb another deadly attack on Shiites Tuesday's first attack targeted an early morning gathering of day laborers in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. Minutes later, an explosives-packed car blew up near a pastry shop in the same district, killing three people and wounding 26, police said. Later in the morning, two more explosives-laden cars detonated, killing three and wounding 29 people. A parked car bomb exploded near a high school at 10:30 a.m. in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shula in northern Baghdad, killing two students and wounding 16 others, most of them also students, according to local police. In the neighboring district of Hurriya, one person was killed when an explosives-packed car, parked along a busy commercial street detonated five minutes after the Shula blast, police officials said. Thirteen people were injured in that bombing. Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the death toll. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. While insurgents have carried out a number of deadly attacks in recent years, there is little indication so far that the country is slipping back toward the widespread sectarian bloodshed of 2006 and 2007.