Special report:Tension escalates in Iraq

A police commando looks at the wreckage of one of the three vehicles that were used in car bomb attacks in Baghdad, Dec. 26, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

    BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of Baghdad's earlier triple car bombing in Baiyaa neighborhood rose to at least 14 people, with some 45 others injured, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

    Earlier police report said that ten people were killed and 35 others wounded when three car bombs went off simultaneously at Baiyaa intersection in southern Baghdad on Tuesday.

    In separate incident, at least five people were killed and 15 others wounded when a roadside bomb detonated at a central Baghdad busy market on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry source said.

    "A makeshift bomb went off around midday at the Baghdad Souq al-Haraj market in Bab al-Sharji area," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity, adding "our initial casualty report said that five people were killed and 15 others wounded."

    Earlier in the day, three roadside bombs exploded in quick succession killed a police officer and wounded nine people in central Baghdad, a ministry source said.