DHAKA: A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, have killed at least 27 people across the Iraqi capital, aljazeera reports.

The attacks on Saturday were among the most significant in Baghdad since fighters led by the Islamic State group captured Iraq's second-largest city Mosul last month.

The first bombing took place in the Shia neighbourhood of Abu Dashir, where a suicide attacker drove a car packed with explosives into a checkpoint, killing at least nine people and wounding 19, officials said.

Four policemen were among the dead, a police officer said.

Later in the day, three car bombs went off in different neighbourhoods of Baghdad, hitting the districts of Baya, Jihad and Kadhimiyah.

Police sources told Al Jazeera that the car bomb in Kadhimiyah killed nine people and injured 20 others.

Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures in all of the attacks.

Source: aljazeera.com
BDST: 1120 HRS, JUL 20, 2014