BAGHDAD (AP) Bomb attacks at a car dealership and an outdoor market on Friday killed six people and wounded 20 others near and north of the Iraqi capital, officials said Friday, the latest attacks in a growing surge of violence.
Police officials said the first attack took place in the afternoon when a bomb went off at the car dealership in Baghdad's mainly Shiite southeastern suburb of Nahrwan, killing three people and wounding nine others.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Iraq since violent attacks began accelerating in April following a deadly security crackdown against a Sunni protest camp in Hawija town.
Shortly after sunset, a bomb exploded near an outdoor market in the mixed town of Tuz Khormato, killing three shoppers killed and wounding 11 others, town police chief Col. Hussein Ali Rasheed, said.
Tuz Khormato, a frequent flashpoint for violence, sits in a band of territory contested by Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen about 200 kilometers (130 miles) north of Baghdad.
