Bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital have killed at least 26 people and wounded nearly 60 others.
The worst of Wednesday's attacks was a car bomb that killed at least 23 people in a Shi'ite Muslim area of southeast Baghdad.
Meanwhile, gunmen in northern Iraq kidnapped an undetermined number of policemen after launching an attack on a police convoy that killed at least two people.
The attacks followed an even bloodier day Tuesday, when bombs killed at least 68 people across Baghdad -- mostly at religious sites.
Sectarian violence has surged in Iraq since the bombing last Wednesday of the Askariya shrine in Samarra -- one of the holiest sites in Shi'ite Islam.
Since then, hundreds of people have been killed and dozens of mosques damaged in reprisal attacks between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims.
The worst of Wednesday's attacks was a car bomb that killed at least 23 people in a Shi'ite Muslim area of southeast Baghdad.
Meanwhile, gunmen in northern Iraq kidnapped an undetermined number of policemen after launching an attack on a police convoy that killed at least two people.
The attacks followed an even bloodier day Tuesday, when bombs killed at least 68 people across Baghdad -- mostly at religious sites.
Sectarian violence has surged in Iraq since the bombing last Wednesday of the Askariya shrine in Samarra -- one of the holiest sites in Shi'ite Islam.
Since then, hundreds of people have been killed and dozens of mosques damaged in reprisal attacks between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims.