Baghdad blasts leave four Iraqis dead

By Amir al-Hassani

BAGHDAD (AA) – Four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, according to a local police officer.

A bomb exploded under a civilian car, killing a man and his wife in southern Baghdad, police captain Nazhan al-Khedr told Anadolu Agency.

He said two other people were injured and seven others injured in a bomb explosion near a marketplace in al-Madaen, south of Baghdad.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks.

In recent months, devastating bombings -- often featuring explosive-laden vehicles -- have become commonplace in Iraq’s violence-prone capital.

The Iraqi authorities typically blame such attacks, which frequently target civilian areas, on the Daesh terrorist group, which captured large swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq in 2014.