Devestation in the Iraqi city of Tuz Khurmato, where four bombs targeting police patrols killed five people and wounded 67.<br /> <br />It was the deadliest attack in a series of bombings across Iraq on Monday that killed at least 23 people and injured more than 200 others.<br /> <br />The carnage comes before Iraqis vote in pivotal provincial elections on Saturday.<br /> <br />In Baghdad's Karrada district, emergency workers douse the flames of a car bomb near a court building that killed three civilians and wounded 15 others.<br /> <br />And in the captal city's Kamaliya district, four people were killed and 17 wounded when another car bomb exploded.<br /> <br />To the north in the city of Kirkuk, emergency workers rush to the scene of a fourth deadly car bombing that killed two and injured ten others, in an attack targeting a convoy carrying the head of Kirkuk University, Burhan Khursheid.<br /> <br />Kursheid escaped the attack unharmed.<br /> <br />No one claimed responsibility for Monday's bombings.<br /> <br />But al Qaeda's
