Baghdad car bombs kill 6

Six people were killed and around two dozen wounded yesterday as two car bomb explosions struck the Iraqi capital, police said.
Four people were killed, including two policemen, and another 14 wounded when a bomb went off in a parking lot near Saadun street, a main thoroughfare running through the heart of Baghdad.
The city has seen a string of attacks in recent days, most of them targeting Iraqi security forces, which still maintain a heavy presence on the streets despite a dramatic improvement in security over the past several months.
Another car bomb went off later in the residential Shaab neighbourhood of northeast Baghdad, killing two people and wounding another 10, according to police, who said the blast hit an area with several schools.
Overall security in Iraq has improved significantly over the past year as US and Iraqi forces allied with local Sunni militias have flooded into formerly ungovernable districts. But militants continue to carry out near-daily attacks.