Sadr City blasts kill five, wound dozens

BAGHDAD, July 21 (UPI) -- Separate bombings in Baghdad's Sadr City Tuesday killed five people and wounded dozens of others, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

A ministry spokesman said in one bombing, separate explosive devices detonated in rapid succession at a area where construction workers gathered, killing two people and wounding at least 24 others, CNN reported.

One bomb was hidden in a food stall while the second was concealed in a trash pile, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported.

The second bombing killed three civilians and injured 15 other people, CNN said.

At least 13 Iraqis were injured in two explosions in the Karada area of Baghdad, police told KUNA. The first blast targeted the convoy of Deputy Minister of Water Resources Bakhtyar Abdulrahman, who was unharmed, and injured two bodyguards. The second bomb went off in the same general area, injuring 11 civilians.

About 70 miles west of Baghdad, a bomb hidden in a parked car detonated in Ramadi, wounding 19 people, CNN said. Officials said the bomb was targeted at a police patrol.