Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad today as commuters were starting their working week, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens of others, Iraqi officials said.

Three US soldiers were killed in north-western Baghdad when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, the military said today.

Two car bombs killed ten civilians today in a blast at a petrol station in central Iraq and another one targeting a two-car convoy carrying foreigners through central Baghdad, police said.

A SUICIDE car bomber ploughed into policemen waiting to collect their salary at a police station west of Ramadi yesterday, killing 12 people in the latest insurgent attack on Iraq’s beleaguered security forces.