10 killed in Baghdad car bombings

At least 10 people were killed and 48 wounded in three car bomb explosions in Iraq's capital Baghdad Tuesday, an interior ministry source said.

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

Earlier, the source said that two car bombs went off during lunch time 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 a series of deadly attacks during the past few days that targeted the predominantly Shia 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.