Baghdad, Sep 10 (DPA) At least 29 people were killed and 81 injured in attacks that shook different parts of Iraq Thursday, security sources said.

In northern Iraq, 25 people died 43 were injured in a truck bombing in eastern Mosul. The vehicle blew up early morning in Kurdish-dominated Wardak village, security sources said.

Security forces defused a nearby second truck bomb before it could be detonated, the source added. The explosion damaged more than 12 houses.

Located 400 km north of Baghdad, Mosul and its environs are the most ethnically and religiously diverse of Iraq's regions and have been the scene of numerous deadly attacks.

Four people were killed and 30 injured in two subsequent blasts in southern Baghdad, a police source said.

The Aswat al-Iraq news agency said the bombs went off simultaneously in a popular marketplace in the al-Mahmoudiya area in southern Baghdad.

Eight other civilians were injured in a third blast when an improvised explosive device went off in the al-Karada neighbourhood of central Baghdad.