Two explosions hit Shiite targets in northern Baghdad after sundown today, killing at least 15 people and wounding 72, police said. The attacks raised the death toll for the day to at least 56.

A SUICIDE bomber killed 32 mourners and injured dozens at a funeral for the nephew of a Shi'ite politician in Iraq yesterday.

Witnesses say a second bomb has exploded at a mosque in western Baghdad.

A car bomb exploded near a Baghdad police station today, killing four Iraqi policemen and injuring four other people, police said.

The deputy police chief of Baghdad and his son, also a police officer, were assassinated today, an interior ministry official said.