(Reuters) - At least 112 people were killed and 197 wounded when four or more large car bombs shook Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest high-profile blasts aimed at government buildings, police said.
Here is a timeline of the deadliest bomb attacks since 2007:
February 3, 2007 - A truck bomb kills 135 people and wounds 305 at a market in the Sadriya district of central Baghdad.
March 6 - Two suicide bombers strike in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 105 pilgrims. Insurgents launch a total of 12 attacks against Shi’ite pilgrims. In all, 137 pilgrims are killed and 310 are wounded.
March 27 - A truck bomb explodes in Tal Afar, near the Syrian border and Mosul, killing 152 people.
April 18 - Multiple car bombings kill 191 people around Baghdad. One car bomb near a market in the central Sadriya neighborhood kills 140 people and wounds 150.
April 28 - A suicide car bomber kills 60 people and wounds 170 at a checkpoint in Kerbala.
May 13 - A suicide truck bombing in northern town of Makhmour kills 50, with 70 people wounded.
June 19 - A car bomb near the Khilani Shi’ite mosque in central Baghdad kills 87 people.
July 7 - A truck packed with explosives covered with hay blows up in a crowded market in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, killing 150 people and wounding 250.
July 16 - Eighty-five people are killed by a suicide truck bomb in the city of Kirkuk. At least 180 are wounded.
August 14 - At least three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers kill and wound at least 796 people in Yazidi residential compounds in the villages of Kahtaniya and al-Jazeera in northern Iraq near the Syrian border. Yazidis are members of a pre-Islamic Kurdish sect who live in northern Iraq and Syria.
February 1, 2008 - Female bombers kill 99 people in attacks blamed on al Qaeda at two popular Baghdad pet markets, the city’s worst attacks in six months.
February 24 - A suicide bomber targeting pilgrims heading to one of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest rites in southern Kerbala kills 63 people and wounds scores in Iskandariya.
March 6 - Two bombs explode in Baghdad’s mainly Shi’ite Karrada district, killing 68 people. Another 120 were wounded.
April 15 - A car bomb kills 40 people and wounds 80 outside a provincial government headquarters in Baquba, capital of Diyala province. Another car bomb, believed to be driven by a suicide attacker, explodes outside a popular restaurant in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, killing 13.
June 17 - A truck bomb blasts the al-Hurriya neighborhood of northwestern Baghdad, killing 63 people and wounding 75. The U.S. military says the attack was carried out by a “special groups cell.”
December 11 - A suicide bomber detonates explosives inside a Kurdish restaurant north of Kirkuk. At least 50 people are killed and 109 wounded.
June 20, 2009 - A suicide bomber detonates a truck filled with explosives as crowds of worshippers leave the Shi’ite al-Rasul mosque in Taza, near Kirkuk. At least 73 people are killed and more than 250 wounded.
June 24 - A bomb kills 72 people at a busy market in eastern Baghdad’s Sadr City. At least 127 people are wounded.
August 19 - At least six blasts strike near government ministries and other targets in Baghdad killing 95 people and wounding 536.
October 25 - Twin car bombs target the Justice Ministry and the Baghdad provincial government building, killing at least 155 people and wounding more than 500 in central Baghdad.
December 8 - At least four car bombs explode in the Iraqi capital, near a courthouse, a judges’ training center, a Finance Ministry building and a police checkpoint in a district of southern Baghdad. At least 112 people are killed and 197 wounded.
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