(VOVworld) - Four car bomb attacks and a mortar strike on Shiite Muslim parts of Baghdad killed at least 36 people and wounded 100 within a span of two hours on Thursday afternoon, police and medical officials said.

A suicide car bomb hit an army checkpoint near a restaurant in the northern district of Talibiya, killing nine people and wounding 23. Forty-five minutes later, a pair of car bombs exploded in the district of al-Dawlai in western Baghdad, killing 16 people and wounding 35. All victims were civilians. Minutes after that, a mortar round hit the neighboring Shiite district of al-Shaoula, killing another five and wounding 21 others. A car bomb then exploded in the nearby Hurriya district, leaving six dead and wounding 14 others.