BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and eight others wounded when a fifth car bomb went off near a hospital in western Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said.

    "A car parked near the Iskan Hospital in the Baghdad neighborhood of Iskan went off at about 4:50 p.m. (1350 GMT)," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    "The attack killed at least two people and wounded eight others," the source added.

    Meanwhile, the source said that the death toll from a triple car bombing rose to 25.

    Three car bombs went off in quick succession at 3:30 p.m. (1230GMT) in Huriyah neighborhood in northern Baghdad, killing 25people and wounding 65 others, the source said.

    In the wake of the triple bombing, a fourth car bomb detonated in Saidiyah district in southern Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding four.

    The serial bombing attacks were carried out hours after the Iraqi government executed former leader Saddam Hussein by hanging at dawn on Saturday.

    Saddam, born on April 28, 1937 and deposed in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, was handed over on Friday to the Iraqi authorities from a U.S. camp near Baghdad International Airport where he had been held.