BAGHDAD: Nine car bombs mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday, security and medical officials said.

The blasts are the latest in a string of sectarian attacks in central Iraq that have raised the specter of a return to the all-out Sunni-Shiite conflict that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.

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