The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for attacks that killed more than 40 people near the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba.
More than 80 people were injured in Monday's attacks that happened in predominantly Shia areas in Diyala province.
The deadliest attack occurred in the town of Huwaydir. Police said a suicide car blast tore through a marketplace, killing at least 35 people and wounding 72.
"A suicide bomber driving a booby-trapped vehicle blew himself up in the middle of the central market area in Huwaydir," a police lieutenant-colonel said, according to the AFP news agency.
Another suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden vehicle past a checkpoint before blowing himself up in Kanaan district, killing at least 10 people and wounding the same number, a police captain said.
An improvised explosive device also went off in a neighbourhood between Baquba and Huwaydir, killing three and wounding four others, the same source said.
It was not immediately clear how many of the victims were civilians.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting from Baghdad, noted that the bombings were the second deadliest ones in the province since late July, when at least 100 civilians were killed in attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
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