A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 30 others near a market in Baghdad's Shia district of Sadr City today, Iraqi police said.
Other sources said the bomb exploded near a police station. It exploded around dusk, at a time when many people were shopping.
Elsewhere a roadside bomb exploded in a market in the holy Shia Iraqi town of Kufa today, killing five people and wounding eight, police said. The local hospital said three people were killed and four wounded.
Kufa is one of three religiously important cities for Iraq's majority Shias that lie south of Baghdad. Fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also has his home there.
In May, a suicide car bomber killed 10 people when he drove a minibus into an open market packed with morning shoppers. That attack bore the hallmarks of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.