Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq

   BAGHDAD, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Two car bombs, including a suicide one, went off in quick succession near a police headquarters in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, killing ten people and wounding 35 others, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

Residents gather at the scene of car bomb attacks in Baghdad Jan. 27, 2007. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

   A suicide car bomber blew up an explosive-laden car at midday near Baghdad's al-Jadidah police headquarters, while another parking car bomb detonated shortly afterwards, the source said on condition of anonymity.

   Three policemen were among the wounded, he said.

   Earlier the source said one suicide car bomb detonated at the area but he now changed his story.

   According to the source, most of the killed and wounded were civilians since the headquarters is close to a busy popular market. Several cars were also caught fire by the blasts, and blood and debris could be seen scattered at the scene.

   In a separate incident earlier in the day, mortar rounds landed on the Hurriyah neighborhood in the north of the capital, killing a civilian and wounding 14 others.

   Violence rages in Iraq as sectarian killings, suicide attacks, bombings, abductions cause dozens of Iraqi casualties daily.