As many as 23 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured in separate attacks across Iraq,

As many as 23 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured in separate attacks across Iraq, police and medical sources say.

The attacks took place on Thursday. The deadliest incident was a car bombing in a market in the capital, in which eight people died and 30 others were wounded, AFP quoted a police colonel and a medical official as saying.

In another car bombing, which targeted a government building, four people died and 20 others were injured in the town of Taji, about 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of the city, the police said.

Meanwhile, in the city of Baquba, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Baghdad, another car bomb went off, killing six people and wounding 51 civilians, police and a local medical source said.

In another incident in southern Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol, killing one and injuring five policemen.

In the city of Fallujah, about 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of the capital, a bomber killed two policemen and wounded four others. In a separate attack in the south of the city, a car bomb went off, injuring three other police officers.

Gunmen killed two anti-al-Qaeda militiamen and wounded two others at a roadblock in the city of Samarra, 125 kilometers (78 miles) north of Baghdad, a medical source said.

Five people were injured in the town of Ramadi, about 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of the capital, when a car bomb exploded in a parking area of a state-run immigration office.