(VOVworld) – A series of bombings targeted areas in and around Baghdad on Monday killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 40 others, an Iraq police officer said.

Iranian security personnel at the scene after bombing in Sadr City district (Photo by: TTXVN)

The first attack took place in the northern, Shiite-dominated Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad where a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint next to a commercial area, killing at least 8 civilians and 3 soldiers, along with 14 people injured. In the second attack, a bomb motorcycle went off at a market in Baghdad's eastern Shiite Sadr City district, killing 3 and wounding 10. Another bombing struck an outdoor market in the town of Tarmiyah, about 50 kilometres north of Baghdad, killing 4 civilians and 2 policemen, wounding 19 people.