BAGHDAD: A double truck bombing tore through a Shiite community near the northern city of Mosul, while a series of blasts struck Baghdad Monday in a wave of predawn violence that killed at least 40 people, according to Iraqi officials.
The deadliest blast on Monday was a double truck bombing in Khazna village, just east of Mosul, as the members of a Shiite minority ethnic group called the Shabak, who live there, were still sleeping.

Two explosives-laden trucks went off nearly simultaneously and less than 500 yards (meters) apart, killing at least 23 people and wounding 138, according to police and hospital officials.
Those killed were all civilians because the trucks were parked in an alley and not near such targets as a police station.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni insurgents who remain active in Mosul and surrounding areas.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene where rescuers searched through rubble of at least 15 houses that were destroyed. Many of the dead and wounded were sleeping on their roofs because lack of electricity and the heat made it to hot to sleep inside.
The first bomb Monday was hidden in a pile of trash when it exploded about 5:50 a.m. near a group of construction workers drinking tea and looking for day jobs in the religiously mixed neighborhood of Amil, killing at least seven people and wounding 46, officials said.
About 10 minutes later a car bomb targeting construction workers elsewhere in western Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 35, according to police.
Three bombs also exploded in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah shortly before 7 a.m., wounding a member of a government-backed paramilitary group, an army official said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information.