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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iraq's bloodiest day this year claims 70 lives AFP - 25 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Iraqi soldiers gather at the site of a bus explosion in Iskandiriyah, 50kms south of Baghdad. Twin car bombs against factory workers and an apparently coordinated series of attacks targeting security forces killed 70 people in Iraq in the bloodiest day to hit the country this year. HILLA, Iraq (AFP) - – Twin car bombs at a factory, followed by a suicide blast against emergency workers, and coordinated attacks on security forces killed 70 people on Monday in Iraq's bloodiest day this year. There were more than 20 attacks nationwide, a surge in violence that came as the country moved closer to forming a new government two months after a general election seen crucial to US combat troops leaving the country by August 31. The deadliest attack saw two explosives-packed vehicles detonated minutes apart in the car park of a textiles factory in the central city of Hilla, 95 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad, as workers boarded buses to go home. About an hour later, a massive blast, which an interior ministry official said was a suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled belt, engulfed the area as emergency service workers treated victims at the scene. "When I heard the explosions, I rushed outside and saw the massive damage -- there were bodies everywhere, people were crying and screaming," said Haidar Ali, 35, who had by chance stayed in the factory to speak to a colleague. "It's the fault of the government and the company. They care only about their own personal safety, and they left the workers without any security. They were very easy targets." An official at Hilla's hospital said the explosions, which struck the State Company for Textile Industries at around 1:30 pm (1030 GMT), killed 38 people and wounded 123 others. An interior ministry official put the death toll at 36. A Babil police spokesman confirmed that the two cars exploded in a car park at the factory when workers were leaving and that a third blast targeting rescue workers was heard around an hour later. A police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said security forces had received intelligence of car bombs targeting the city and had searched different parts of it before hearing the explosions. Earlier on Monday, the capital Baghdad was hit by a spate of shootings with automatic weapons against six police or army checkpoints in the east and west of the city, which left seven dead, the interior ministry official said. Two other policemen died in three bombings in south and west Baghdad, he added. "The attacks started at 6:30 am (0330 GMT) and ended around 8:00 am (0500 GMT)," the official said, noting that nearly all of the wounded were security personnel. A double bomb attack near the mosque in Suwayrah, 60 kilometres (40 miles) southeast of the capital, meanwhile, killed 11 people and wounded 70, a police lieutenant told AFP. Twelve other people were killed in separate attacks around the former Sunni insurgent bastion of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, the northern city of Mosul, in Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, and near Tarmiyah, north of the Iraqi capital. Monday's death toll was the highest since December 8, when 127 people were killed in five massive vehicle-borne bombs across the capital. There were more than 20 attacks in total on Monday, which Major General Qassim Atta, a security forces spokesman in Baghdad, said appeared to be a coordinated assault on security and civilian targets. Although violence has dropped in the past two years, the latest unrest will be seen as evidence that insurgents remain capable of wreaking carnage on a grand scale, two months after elections in which no clear winner emerged. Electoral officials said on Sunday that results from the March 7 vote were nearly finalised with totals from all but one province sent for ratification. A recount in the lone exception, Baghdad, is more than half done. Monday's violence came after the number of Iraqis killed in violence in April fell slightly month on month but was almost unchanged from 12 months ago. Figures compiled by the health, interior and defence ministries showed that 328 people -- 274 civilians, 39 police and 15 soldiers -- died as a result of attacks in April, only slightly fewer than the 355 killed 12 months ago. April's death toll, however, was down slightly on March, when 367 people were killed. 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