Up to seven people were killed and 59 others wounded in six car bomb explosions across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

The attacks occurred within minutes in the morning. One of the blasts hit a busy intersection in the Shiite district of Sadr City in the eastern part of Baghdad, leaving a civilian killed and six others wounded, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Another car bomb struck new Baghdad district in the southeastern part of the capital, killing up to two civilians and wounding some 25 others.

A civilian was killed and ten others were wounded when a booby- trapped car ripped through a marketplace in Shaab district in northeastern Baghdad, the source said.

The fourth car bomb detonated near traffic police headquarters in Kadhmiyah district in northern Baghdad, leaving up to three people killed and 12 wounded, the source added.

In addition, two car bombs went off at a busy parking lot in Saadoun Street in downtown Baghdad, wounding at least six people and damaging several cars, he said.

Earlier police reports put the toll on three killed and 34 wounded by the explosion of four car bombs.

The attacks came at the 11th anniversary of the fall of the Saddam regime when the U.S.-led coalition forces swept the Iraqi capital and toppled the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

It also came a few weeks before the landmark parliamentary elections on April 30, which is the first in the country since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in late 2011.

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