More than 60 people were killed in a wave of car bombs across the Iraqi capital late on Saturday, security and medical sources said.

The deadliest blast took place in the Bayaa district, where a car bomb exploded, killing 23 people, many of them young people playing billiards.

(Reporting by Kareem Raheem; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

(Reuters) -