At least twelve people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a series of car bombings in Iraq.Reports say the attacks happened in and around Baghdad, with at least eight people killed when a car bomb blew up outside a market in a mainly Shia district of the capital. Another car bomb targeted a government building in the nearby predominantly Sunni city of Taji.
Sources said Thursday's car bomb at a market in the predominantly Shia Muslim district of Washash had killed at least eight people and injured 30. The blast in Taji, some 12 miles north of Baghdad, killed four and injured 20, police said.
There are unconfirmed reports that a police patrol and a roadblock manned by militamen trying to prevent al-Qaeda attacks were targeted.