By DPA
Baghdad : A car bomb attack on a Baghdad market killed at least 42 people Sunday, police and witnesses said.
The attack in the Baija district of southern Baghdad also left more than 70 people wounded.
Using street barricades and additional troops the Iraqi government has been trying since mid-February to reduce the number of such attacks.
Meanwhile two suicide attackers in northern Iraq killed seven people, including a police director in the city of Samarra, reports said.
One of the attackers blew himself up in front of a police station in Samarra, killing six Iraqis and wounding eight, the al-Arabiya broadcaster reported.
The second attacker struck a police convoy, killing the director of police in the city.
On Saturday militants shot dead two high ranking police officers and an Iraqi soldier in Samarra.