Baghdad: Fifteen people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a busy Baghdad market on Saturday as the search resumed amid the rubble of two Shiite mosques where at least 75 died in twin suicide bombings a day earlier.
The latest attack, which targeted a local market in the Jesir Diyala district of southern Baghdad, was followed 90 minutes later by another car bomb attack in the centre of the Capital, an interior ministry official said.
The market bomb, hidden in a parked car, wounded some 20 people, all of them civilians.
The second blast, which targeted a police patrol, left three policemen and two civilians wounded.
A week ago, another car bomb killed four women and wounded some 40 people at another Baghdad market in the southeast of the Capital.
The surge of bombings comes three weeks before general elections, which will see a new government for four years.
The final step in a process of political transition which followed the toppling of dictator Saddam Hussein two and a half years' ago.
Meanwhile, searching resumed in the town of Khanaqin, near the Iranian border, for bodies buried in the rubble of two Shiite mosques devastated by two suicide bombers, wearing explosive belts, who blew themselves up during Friday prayers.
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