A series of blasts in central Iraq killed 15 people today, police officials said.

Street vendors, market-goers and day labourers appear to have been the targets of the attacks.

The first two bombs exploded in the early morning where day labourers gather in the mostly Sunni village of al-Zaidan, near the town of Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad.

They killed seven people and wounded 11 others, the officials said.

Hours later, three bombs exploded near the kiosks of vendors selling CDs and military uniforms in central Baghdad’s Bab al-Sharqi market district, killing eight people and wounding 19 others.