BAGHDAD – Iraqi authorities tightened security Sunday, a day after attacks during the Eid Al-Adha holiday that killed 31 people in the country’s deadliest day this month.



The shootings and bombings, which also wounded more than 100 people, were the latest in a spate of violence in the past week that has broken a relative calm, and came even though authorities had announced moves to boost security during the four-day Eid break which began Friday.



Tougher security measures in the form of stricter checkpoint searches and vehicle curfews are common in the aftermath of major attacks in Iraq.



In the Shiite bastion of Sadr City, northeast Baghdad, twin car bombs left 13 people dead and 52 wounded, officials said, while a bombing in a market in Maamal neighborhood killed five people, including three children and a woman, and wounded 13. – AFP