Baghdad, Rajab 10, 1434, May 20, 2013, SPA - A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 40 people on Monday, striking at market places and crowded bus stops during the busy morning hours, officials said. In the Iraqi capital, nine car bombs went off at bus stops, open-air markets and in streets, killing 27 people and wounding 116, according to police officials. The deadliest attacks came in the northern Sabi al-Boor neighborhood and in Baghdad's eastern suburb of Kamaliya. Seven people were killed in each of those attacks. In the southern city of Basra, two car bombs - one near a restaurant and the other at the city's main bus station - killed at least 13 and wounded 40, according to the provincial police spokesman, Col. Abdul-Karim al-Zaidi, and the head of city's health directorate, Riadh Abdul-Amir, according to a report of the Associated Press. --SPA 13:09 LOCAL TIME 10:09 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1112075