Bomb attacks kill four people at Baghdad street markets

Reuters
People gather at the site of Tuesday's car bomb attack near the house of Turki Mutlaq Al Nadawi, a tribal leader who was kidnapped by unknown militants before the attack, on the outskirts of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, June 24, 2015. The bomb attack killed 16 civilians and wounded 36 others, police and medical sources said. REUTERS/Stringer

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said. In the Obeidi district of eastern Baghdad a bomb exploded near a crowded market, killing two people. Another bomb went of near a crowded grocery market in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, the police and medics said. Iraq faces multiple security challenges, including Islamic State insurgents who control a third of the country and a sectarian civil war. (Reporting by Baghdad bureau, Writing by Michael Georgy, Editing by Angus MacSwan)