Baghdad, May 15 (EFE).- At least 9 people died and 65 others were wounded Wednesday by six car-bombs in Baghdad, most of them exploding in predominately Shiite districts, an Iraqi police spokesman told Efe. The first car-bomb blew up in Khadimiyah, in the northern part of the Iraqi capital, killing two people and wounding nine. Khadimiyah is the target of frequent bomb attacks against the Shiite community living in that neighborhood.

Bombings in Iraq, including a series of blasts mainly targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 70 on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. Car bombs hit Kadhimiyah and Sadr City in north Baghdad, Saidiyah in the south and Mashtal and Baghdad Jadida in the east, killing at least 14 people and wounding at least 47, while a roadside bomb in the Zafraniyah area killed two police, officials said. AFP journalists heard the sound of explosions in central Baghdad, and saw a number of ambulances on the street.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a Sunni cleric and five worshippers when they left a mosque in Bagdhad after Friday prayers, police and medics said, as regional sectarian violence threatens to return Iraq to all-out conflict. Iraq has become increasingly volatile as the civil war in neighboring Syria strains volatile relations between Sunnis and Shi'ites. April saw the most killings since 2008, but was below the height of sectarian bloodletting in 2006-07.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition won the most provincial council seats in seven of the 12 provinces that voted, according to results released on Saturday. However, no list won a majority of seats in any of the provinces. The vote for provincial councils was the first election held since US troops withdrew from Iraq in late 2011, and was seen as an important gauge of Maliki's popularity ahead of a general election next year.