A car bomb blast near the southern Iraqi city of Basra and two others north of the capital Baghdad killed at least 25 people on Monday.
A car bomb blast near the southern Iraqi city of Basra and two others north of the capital Baghdad killed at least 25 people on Monday, security officials said.
At least 10 people were killed in a rare car bomb explosion in Zubayr, just southwest of Basra, while five and 10 died in attacks in Hosseiniyah and Khalis respectively.
"At least 10 people were killed. We also have 24 wounded," said Jabbar al-Saadi of the Basra provincial council's security committee.
He said the explosion, which occurred around 5:30 pm (1430 GMT), rocked a market area known as Souk al-Halaqin in Zubayr, just 10 kilometers (six miles) southwest of Basra.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Zubayr bombing, however.
The Basra region has been spared the violence unleashed on other parts of Iraq by the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group since last year.
Two other car bombs went off in areas north of Baghdad that have been routinely targeted by the jihadists.
A blast in a market area of Khalis, around 55 kilometers (35 miles) from the capital, killed 10 people and wounded 21, a senior police officer said.
A local medical source in Diyala province confirmed the casualty toll.
Diyala, a religiously and ethnically mixed province that ISIL partly took over last year, was declared liberated by the government in January.
In Husseiniyah, barely 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad, a car bomb detonated in a busy area, killing five people and wounding at least 17, a police colonel said.
According to figures released by the UN Mission in Iraq on Thursday, 717 Iraqis were killed and 1,216 wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in September.
The Baghdad governorate alone accounted for 257 of the deaths.
The United Nations says its figures account only for the casualties that can be verified, and are likely to be far below reality.
