At least one car bomb exploded in a market in east Baghdad today, starting fires in several shops and killing at least five people and wounding 12, police and witnesses said.
Police, who confirmed there was a fire in the market, said there were at least five dead and a dozen wounded.
The latest attack came just two days after a suicide bomber killed dozens of people in a crowded restaurant in Baghdad.
That was one of the biggest attacks in Baghdad in recent months and came a day after three hotel bombs in Jordan's capital Amman, claimed by al Qaeda in Iraq, killed 57 people.