A suicide bomber detonated a powerful truck bomb outside a Ministry of Trade food warehouse in northwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 40 others, an Interior Ministry official said.
The attack took place around 10 a.m. (2 a.m. ET) in the capital's Iskan district, a predominantly Shiite area of town.
Police also found a booby-trapped ambulance about 500 yards away, but they were able to defuse all of the explosives, The Associated Press reported.
Another car bomb exploded outside a bakery in southeastern Baghdad hours later. Four people were killed and several others were wounded, a Baghdad police official said.
Tuesday's violence comes a day after five explosions ripped through central Baghdad, killing at least 90 people and wounding more than 190 others.
Iraq's Interior Ministry accused al Qaeda in Iraq of responsibility for the deadliest of Monday's attacks and detained three people, including two foreigners and an Iraqi.
Monday's deadly bombings exploded amid memorials marking last year's attack on a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra.
The February 22, 2006, bombing is blamed for sparking sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. It has been a year since the attack, according to the Islamic calendar.
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