At least 38 people were killed in Shi'a areas of Baghdad on Saturday night, according to media reports.
Al Jazeera reported that the blasts occurred within minutes of one another.
The Associated Press said that the first attack came when a suicide car bomb rammed a police checkpoint in the Khazimiyah district, killing 13 and wounding 28. Two more suicide car bomb attacks in the Shula district killed seven people in a commercial area, and 18 at another police checkpoint, with many more wounded.
