At least seven people were killed and 16 others wounded in a car bomb explosion at a marketplace in the north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, a well-placed security official said.

The attack occurred around midday, when a booby-trapped car went off at a fish wholesale market in Taji area, some 20 km north of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Earlier in the day, three car bombs exploded at a vegetable wholesale market in the town of Jedidat al-Shutt near Diyala's provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 39 others.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks, but the al-Qaida front in Iraq, in most cases, were allegedly responsible for such massive attacks in the country, raising fears that the terrorist group and other militia could return to widespread violence.

Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks are still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease in violence since its peak in 2006 and 2007, when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings. Endi

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