Two car bombs in Baghdad this morning have killed at least 30 people and injured scores more.
At least 25 people, most of them policemen, were killed when a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside the headquarters of the Iraqi police's major crimes unit in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said.
The ministry said the car bomber had stopped at the first checkpoint and was having his vehicle checked for explosives when he detonated the bomb.
Of the 25 people killed, ten of them policemen. Another 32 people were wounded, the ministry said.
Elsewhere, another car bomb exploded in a Baghdad market, killing at least five people and wounding ten.
Police said the blast took place close to a Shia mosque in the southwestern district of Shurta al-Khamisa.
Sunni Arab insurgents fighting to topple the US-backed government target Iraqi security forces on a daily basis, ambushing police and army patrols with car bombs and makeshift explosives planted on the roadside.