DHAKA: Half a dozen bomb explosions killed 24 people and wounded 58 in Baghdad on Monday.

Iraqi police and medics said, reports The Jerusalem Post.

The bloodiest attack occurred in mainly Shia Muslim Abu Dsheer district in the south of the Iraqi capital, where a car bomb near a crowded market killed seven people and wounded 18.

BDST: 1749 HRS, JAN 20, 2014