Attacks in Iraq, including a car bomb, killed 11 people on Thursday, officials said.

Attacks in Iraq, including a car bomb, killed 11 people on Thursday, officials said.

A car bomb in Jadida neighborhood of Baghdad, in the capital's east, killed at least three people and wounded nine others, police and medical officials said.

The explosion caused massive damage to nearby houses and shops.

Meanwhile in Baghdad's southern outskirts, a bomb in a busy street killed at least one person and wounded four others on Thursday, officials said.

And a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at the entrance to an army base in Anbar, killing three soldiers and wounding six others.

Police arrested a militant filming the blast in the aftermath of the attack.

And four people were killed in attacks north of the capital.

A roadside bombing in Balad killed three people, among them two women, while in the main northern city of Mosul, a gun attack left an off-duty policeman dead, officials said.

The bloodshed is the latest in Iraq's worst violence since 2008, with more than 5,500 people dead this year.