Iraqi men clear the debris at the scene of a car bomb in the mainly Shiite Sadr City district in Baghdad on August 1, 2014.
Baghdad:
Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 25, police and medical sources said.
Two near simultaneous blasts in the northeastern Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr city killed seven people and wounded 14, a police colonel told AFP. Medical sources confirmed the toll.
Another car bomb near a market area in the Ur district, north of Sadr City, killed at least five and wounded 11, the same sources said.
The Islamic State jihadist group seized large parts of Iraq's west and north in June, before stopping its offensive a few dozen kilometres from the Iraqi capital.
But violence has continued to wreak havoc in Baghdad, mostly in Shiite neighbourhoods, with suicide attacks, car bombs and improvised explosive devices targeting security forces as well as civilians.
Two near simultaneous blasts in the northeastern Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr city killed seven people and wounded 14, a police colonel told AFP. Medical sources confirmed the toll.
Another car bomb near a market area in the Ur district, north of Sadr City, killed at least five and wounded 11, the same sources said.
The Islamic State jihadist group seized large parts of Iraq's west and north in June, before stopping its offensive a few dozen kilometres from the Iraqi capital.
But violence has continued to wreak havoc in Baghdad, mostly in Shiite neighbourhoods, with suicide attacks, car bombs and improvised explosive devices targeting security forces as well as civilians.
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