More Than 30 Killed In Iraqi Car-Bomb Attacks

In the town of Al Zubair, about 9 miles southwest of the oil town of Basra, a second attack took place, also near a crowded market.

While no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, the Islamic State group regularly targets Shiite neighborhoods and government installations in an effort to destabilize the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.

The failing in Basra provides a good news, reporters say, as it is mainly Shia – that renders it more durable for Sunni jihadist communities to execute flareups in the same they generally do in Baghdad along with other climates.

However, there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Zubayr bombing.

IS routinely uses the term Rafidha to refer to Shiite Muslims.

Jabar al-Saadi, head of security for Basra province, said at least 25 people were wounded in the attack.

At least 25 others were wounded in the blast in the capital’s north-eastern neighbourhood of Husseiniya, according to Associated Press.

Local councillor Uday al-Hadran as well as medical sources in Khalis and in the provincial capital Baquba confirmed the casualty toll.

Diyala, a religiously and ethnically mixed province that Islamic State partly took over past year, was declared liberated by the government in January.

In another attack in northeastern Baghdad, two people were killed and eight others wounded when a vehicle bomb exploded, police officials tell CNN.

The United Nations says its figures account only for the casualties that can be verified, and are likely to be far below reality.