BAGHDAD (AP) - Car bombings, mortar fire and other attacks have claimed at least 57 lives today across Iraq.
A suicide driver slammed his vehicle through a security checkpoint in a hail of gunfire at an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul. Police say 13 Iraqi soldiers died, and more than 40 people were injured.
The day also saw the most sustained assault in months against the Green Zone in Baghdad, the nerve center of the U.S. mission. Rockets and mortars pounded that area of the capital.
The Baghdad attacks may have stemmed from rising tensions between rival Shiite groups.
A U.S spokeswoman says four people were wounded in the Green Zone, which includes the U.S. and British embassies. Iraqi police say ten civilians were killed in rocket or mortar blasts in scattered areas of eastern Baghdad -- some of them probably due to misfired rounds.
Also in the capital, seven people died in a suicide car bombing in a Shiite area.
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