Two roadside bombs killed at least eight people south of Baghdad on Wednesday, security and medical officials said, in the latest a wave of attacks that hit Iraq this month.

Two roadside bombs killed at least eight people south of Baghdad on Wednesday, security and medical officials said, in the latest a wave of attacks that hit Iraq this month.

One of the bombs has exploded near the garden of a house in Madain, and the other has detonated after people gathered at the site, AFP quoted an interior ministry official as saying.

A medical source said that two hospitals had received eight bodies and that 18 people had been wounded in the blasts, while the official said eight people were martyred and 10 others were hurt.

Wednesday's toll brings to at least 184 people killed in Iraq since June 13 -- more than the number of people killed in all of May.

Attacks on June 13, which killed 72 people across the country, were later claimed by Al-Qaeda's front group, the so-called “Islamic State of Iraq.”

Violence has declined significantly since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common, killing 132 people in May, government figures show.