Report: 3 bomb-rigged cars exploded across Baghdad; casualty count unclear

Report: 3 bomb-rigged cars explode in Baghdad

BAGHDAD — Three bomb-rigged cars exploded in quick succession across Baghdad on Tuesday, state television reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but at least one of the reported targets was a busy market.

State-run Iraqiya television said the explosions occurred at a market in central Baghdad, near the Labor Ministry in northeastern Baghdad and another site in the center of the city.

The three blasts appeared coordinated and occurred in a span of several minutes.

There also were reports of other attacks around the capital — including a suicide attack in the Sunni area in southern Baghdad that killed at least three people — in potentially the worst day of violence in the city since late October when twin car bomb attacks outside municipal offices killed at least 155 people.

In the southern Baghdad area of Dora, a suicide car bomber struck a police patrol, killing at least two policemen and a civilian and injuring five others, said a police officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.