At least 66 people died Wednesday in Iraq, mostly in and around the capital Baghdad, said security officials, the latest in an upsurge of attacks in the country, DPA reported. A spate of apparently synchronized car bombings left at least 59 dead and about 150 injured in northern and eastern Baghdad. Most casualties were believed to stem from a bombing in the northern district of Kadhimiya, where four back-to-back car bombs went off. Two other car bombings took place in a marketplace in the district of Jisr Diyala in south-eastern Baghdad. Further deadly blasts were reported in in eastern Baghdad.