Five people were killed and 32 others wounded in four car bomb explosions across Iraq's eastern province of Wasit on Wednesday, a provincial medical source said.

The attacks occurred in several cities and towns across the province around noon. The two car bombs ripped through the city of Nu'maniyah, some 120 km southeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, leaving one civilian killed and ten others injured, head of the provincial health office Jabbar al-Yaseri told reporters.

Another car bomb went off at the town of Hafriyah, some 50 km southeast of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding eight others, al-Yaseri said.

A fourth car bomb, detonated near a popular restaurant in the town of Aziziyah, some 75 km southeast of Baghdad, wounding 14 people, some of them were in critical conditions, he added.

The attacks followed six car bombings that ripped through Baghdad earlier in the day which killed a total of seven people and wounded some 59 others.

The attacks came at the 11th anniversary of the fall of the Saddam regime when the U.S.-led coalition forces swept the Iraqi capital and toppled the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

It also came a few weeks before the landmark parliamentary elections on April 30, which is the first in the country since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in late 2011. Endi

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