At least 27 Iraqis have been killed in a string of attacks across Iraq.
Seven people were killed and 25 wounded when two bombs exploded in a market in the Baab al-Sharki area of Baghdad this morning.
Another 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in east Baghdad near the Shaab stadium when a bomb exploded among a crowd queuing for heating fuel.
South of the capital, three more civilians were killed in two separate bomb attacks.
In the northern city of Mosul, two Iraqis died when a suicide bomber blew up his car outside a local headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, run by Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani. Another 19 people were wounded in the blast.
Further south, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on the highway between the oil refinery depot of Baiji and Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit.
Another three soldiers were wounded in the explosion, which destroyed an Iraqi military vehicle.
And in Diyala province, north of the capital, a police captain and two civilians were killed in separate gun attacks.
