Four of the wounded were in critical condition.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the bombings followed five consecutive attacks targeting mosques associated with Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's movement in Baghdad. At least 30 people were killed in those attacks and at least 100 others wounded.

In the north of the country, two policemen were killed late Sunday when a bomb planted by the side of the road exploded as they patrolled al-Yarmuk, just south of Mosul, police told DPA Monday.

A third policeman died and four others were injured when 'unknown gunmen' sprayed their patrol with machine-gun fire in the eastern Mosul district of al-Bikr late Sunday, police said.