At least 10 people were killed and more than 30 wounded in a series of attacks in Baghdad yesterday, one of them a twin car bombing in a business district, security sources said.
Eight people were killed and 25 wounded when the two bombs went off minutes apart in the Al-Khark district of west Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.
Earlier, two people were killed and 13 wounded, six of them policeman, when three makeshift mines went off in east Baghdad.
"A bomb which was intended for Al-Jadida district Mayor Essam al-Temimi, went off in the Zatunah neighbourhood killing a civilian and wounding two of his bodyguards," a security source said.
A man was then killed when a mine went off on Palestine Street as a police patrol passed. Five people were wounded, three of them policemen.
And six people were wounded, three of them soldiers, when their convoy hit a makeshift mine.