Three blasts killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 in predominantly Shia Muslim districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said.
A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in a commercial street in the eastern Baghdad al-Jadida area of the Iraqi capital, killing nine people and wounding more than 30, they said.
Another suicide attack hit a commercial street of Bayaa in western Baghdad, killing six and wounding 22, the sources said, according to Reuters.
A roadside bomb exploded near a gathering of cattle herders and merchants in al-Radhwaniya, also in western Baghdad, killing two people, they said.
The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group claimed the two suicide attacks, but did not mention the third assault.
The hardline group has intensified bomb attacks in government-held areas this year, as it loses territory to Iraqi government forces and Shia militias.
The group claimed a truck bombing in July that killed at least 324 people in the Karrada shopping area of Baghdad—the deadliest single attack in Iraq since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The group continues to control vast areas in northern and western Iraq, including the city of Mosul, captured in 2014.
