BAGHDAD, April 7 (UPI) -- A car bomb exploded in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 18 others, officials said.
The car was parked near a mosque in the Kadhimiya area when it exploded, killing mostly civilians, CNN reported.
A roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad detonated earlier Tuesday as a police patrol passed but no injuries were reported, an Interior Ministry official said.
On Monday, a series of car bombings in Shiite neighborhoods killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 130 others. The Iraqi government blamed the ousted Baath Party and al-Qaida in Iraq for the attacks, CNN said.
The U.S. military also implicated al-Qaida in Iraq, saying in a statement, "The nature of the attacks and targets are consistent with past al-Qaida in Iraq attacks. We see this as coordinated attack by terrorists against predominately (Shiite) targets that they gauge as vulnerable to instigate sectarian violence."
