BAGHDAD- Insurgents exploded eight car bombs in Baghdad on Sunday in separate attacks throughout the capital, but caused relatively few casualties, police said. Eleven people were wounded, but no one was killed, police said. Police explosives experts detonated a ninth car bomb in a controlled explosion.The first car bomb exploded at 8:15 a.m. in northern Baghdad as an Iraqi army patrol was passing. Two soldiers were wounded, police Lt. Bilal Ali Majid said. Two civilians were wounded by a suicide car bomber who exploded his vehicle at 9 a.m., said Lt. Thair Mahmoud. The suicide bomber was the only death caused by the car bombs.
About four kilometers mile away, police had found another suspected car bomb and tried to defuse it. It exploded on its own but caused no casualties, Mahmoud said. A fourth car bomb exploded near a restaurant about a half hour later, causing no injuries, said police Lt. Falah al-Mahammadawi.
Around 10 a.m., a car bomb in a parking lot wounded one person, said police Capt. Haidr Ibrahim said. Five minutes later a car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, injuring no one, 1st Lt. Haidr Kamil said. At 10:10 a.m., a seventh car bomb exploded, injuring six civilians, said police Capt. Ziyad Naji.
An eighth car bomb exploded in southeastern Baghdad near a small amusement park, causing no damage, said Capt. Mohammed Abdul Ghani.
Police explosives experts exploded a ninth car bomb - a taxi parked near a cinema - at 11:30 a.m. in eastern Baghdad. There were no casualties, said Capt. Ahmed Aboud.