A civilian was killed and eight others injured in two bomb explosions in Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said, acording to Xinhua.
A roadside bomb, hidden in a busy popular market in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, detonated on Sunday morning, killing one civilian and wounding six others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast damaged a nearby minibus, several shops and stalls, the source said.
In a separate incident, another roadside bomb went off in front of a house in Jamilah neighborhood, adjacent to the Shiite sprawling neighborhood of Sadr City, wounding two people and caused damages to the house, the source added.
The attacks came a day before the climax of the ritual of Arbaeen, as hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims are to observe the ceremony in the holy city of Karbala, some 110 km southwest of Baghdad.
Arbaeen is the end of 40 days of mourning for the Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson who was killed in the battle of Karbala in 680 A.D.
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