Baghdad (Iraq): A car bomb explosion rocked the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, holy to Shiites, on Saturday morning, killing at least five people, Karbala police and hospital sources said.
About 44 people were injured, police said.
Another car bomb exploded in Mosul's Yarmouk Square, killing three people and wounding three others Saturday, police said. Mosul is in northern Iraq, about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Baghdad.
Karbala is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad.
In the capital of Baghdad, Shiite militia members burned Sunni houses in a northwestern neighborhood and shot people as they tried to flee, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.
One man was killed, and his mother and brother were wounded as they tried to drive away, the official said, adding that at least two houses in Hurriya were torched.
In other sectarian strife, police found 40 bullet-riddled bodies across Baghdad on Saturday, and a mortar round landed in the Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiya, killing two people and wounding two others on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Sectarian violence in Iraq has been on a spiraling rise since the February bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad.
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