Summary More than 4,500 people have been killed since April.
BAGHDAD (AP)Car bombs mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday, security and medical officials said.
Nine car bombs hit seven areas of the Iraqi capital and another just to its north, the officials said.
A police officer says the car bomb went off on Monday morning in the city s eastern Sadr City neighborhood. The explosion tore through a small vegetable market and its parking lot.
A medical official confirmed the causality figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to media.
Iraqi militants often target crowded places such as markets, cafes and mosques, seeking to inflict huge casualties.
On Sunday, a wave of attacks in different parts of Iraq including two suicide bombings in the country s relatively peaceful northern Kurdish region killed 46 people.
More than 4,500 people have been killed since April.
