A series of bomb attacks by insurgents in Iraq has killed at least 70 people and wounded scores more. One blast targeted a crowded market in the capital Baghdad leaving at least 24 people dead and 35 injured. Earlier, a motorbike packed with explosives blew up near an Iraqi army recruiting centre in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding 38. In a string of shootings and bombings in and around the town of Baquba, insurgents killed at least 20 Iraqi people, mostly civilians.