At least ten people were killed and 48 others wounded in three car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

A car bomb went off late in the day at a main road in the Shiite dominated district of Talbiyah, leaving three people killed and eight others injured, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Earlier, the source said that two other car bombs went off during lunch time in a quick succession at a parking lot outside Habaybnah Restaurant in the same district, killing seven people and wounding some 40 others.

The blasts apparently are part of series of deadly attacks during the past few days that targeted the predominantly Shiite districts in Baghdad, killing and wounding dozens of Iraqis.

Iraq has been witnessing some of the worst violence in years. Terrorism and violence have killed 5,576 civilians in Iraq in the first half of this year, with 11,666 more wounded, according to a recent UN report. Endi

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