Baghdad, Aug 10 (DPA) A series of bombings across Iraq Monday killed at least 55 people and injured more than 300, police and witnesses said.

In the deadliest of the early morning attacks, 30 people were killed and at least 155 wounded when two trucks packed with explosives detonated in a village in the district of Hamdania, near the northern city of Mosul, witnesses told DPA.

The blasts destroyed dozens of homes in the village inhabited mostly by members of Iraq's predominantly Shia Shabback minority.

Sunni lawmaker Osama al-Najifi implicated Iran in the violence in Mosul, and called on the government to deploy more troops around the city.

'There is a security gap in Mosul, between the area controlled by the government and (the area) occupied by Kurdish Peshmerga (militia) forces,' al-Najifi said.

'We have arrested eight Arabs who entered Kurdistan through Iran,' he said. 'They stayed there for a while, then they came to Mosul to carry out terrorist attacks,' he told DPA.

Al-Najifi said that the bombings near Mosul took place in an area that is controlled by Peshmerga forces only.

'The solution to end this crisis in Mosul is to extend the authority of the Iraqi army throughout the city and to the provincial borders,' he said. 'The government should deploy more forces to ensure security and stability.'

However, Turkman Shia lawmaker, Abbas al-Bayati rules out this reason, saying that they are 'devoid of truth and there is no evidence to prove it'.

Al-Bayati, who is a member of the Iraq's security and defence committee, said outside forces were behind the attacks that aimed to the parliamentary elections, scheduled for January.