Three nearly simultaneous car bombs exploded outside a petrol station in southern Baghdad on Monday, killing six people and wounding another 27, security officials and medics said. The explosives-laden cars were in a queue of vehicles idling outside the Al-Samud fuel outlet in southern Baghdad when they exploded within moments of each other, security officials said.
The co-ordinated bomb attacks took place around 1:00 pm (0900 GMT), security officials said, and came as residents across the city lined up outside markets and gas stations following the lifting Sunday of a four-day curfew. A medic at Baghdad's Yarmuk hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of six people killed in the blasts.