At least 23 Iraqis were killed and another 70 were wounded in a wave of violence that rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

At least 23 Iraqis were killed and other 70 were wounded in a wave of violence that rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

In the deadliest attack, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives-packed vehicles at police stations in Hurriyah, in north Baghdad, and Al-Wiyah, in the centre of the capital, about 8:30 am local time (05:30 GMT), interior and defense ministry officials said.

Another car bomb killed three people and wounded 11, including police, at Al-Ilam in southwest Baghdad, the defense and interior ministry officials said.

Baghdad's Al-Yarmuk hospital received six wounded from the explosion in Al-Ilam, among them a police major, a medical source said.

Also in Hurriyah, another car bomb killed one civilian and wounded an Iraqi army brigadier, nine of his bodyguards and two civilians, according to the officials.

The defense ministry official said the brigadier's first name was Sabah, and he was seriously wounded.

In other attacks, a magnetic "sticky bomb" wounded a police brigadier in Al-Sulaykh in north Baghdad, while two police were wounded by shots from a silenced pistol in the Jihad neighbourhood in south Baghdad, said the interior ministry official.