BAGHDAD — Car bomb attacks in Baghdad and the Iraqi province of Diyala, mostly claimed by Daesh (the so-called IS) group, have killed at least 30 people, police and medical sources said Wednesday.



The deadliest of the attacks was in the Iraqi capital's eastern district of Baghdad Al-Jadida, a predominantly Shiite area that has been one of the most targeted by car bombs in recent years.



At least 19 people were killed and 43 wounded when a car bomb exploded near a market there on Tuesday, a police colonel and hospital sources said. Another four people were killed and 10 wounded in a similar attack in the southern neighborhood of Zafaraniya.



Daesh claimed responsibility for both attacks, saying they had targeted Shiite militiamen, a claim it often makes even when most of the victims are civilians.



A car bomb also struck a joint police and army checkpoint in Tarmiya, a town which lies on of the main highways north of Baghdad, police said.



At least three members of the security forces were killed and nine wounded.



Also on Tuesday, a car bomb went off in Mandali, a town in the eastern province of Diyala which lies near the border with Iran, killing at least four people.  — AFP