At least 10 people were killed on Thursday in two bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, local media reported, citing police, DPA reported.
The first explosion occurred when a car bomb went off in the area of Shula north west of Baghdad followed by a bomb blast, said the independent website Alsumaria News.
Police said the death toll was expected it to rise, the reports said.
Iraq has witnessed near-daily attacks since US troops withdrew in December 2011, raising fears of a return to the sectarian tensions that drove the country close to civil war in 2006 and 2007.
The violence comes at at time of a widening crisis between the Shiite-led government and the country's Sunni minority.
Thousands of Sunni protesters have been rallying for more than two months against Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, demanding a repeal of laws they claim target Sunnis.