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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Bombs in Iraqi marketplaces killed dozens of people Monday in Baghdad and in Khalis, near the northeastern city of Baquba.

At least 88 people were killed and 160 wounded in central Baghdad in a pair of nearly simultaneous car bombings, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Hours later, a bomb hidden in a vendor's cart exploded in a market in Khalis, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad -- killing 12 and wounding 40, Iraqi officials said.

The midday bombings in Baghdad's al-Sharqi district targeted civilians in a secondhand market, the site of several earlier attacks.

"Body parts everywhere, many bodies charred; it was horrible," the Interior Ministry official said.

Both car bombs were parked near the market and were detonated by remote control shortly after a driver stepped out of one of the vehicles, leaving its engine running, the official said, citing witnesses.

That car had a large amount of explosives and metal objects, including nails and other shrapnel, to inflict maximum casualties, the official said.

Other attacks Monday in Baghdad left at least three dead, an Interior Ministry official said. 


 A prominent Sunni sheik, Riyadh Hussein al-Ogaidat, was fatally gunned down in front of his home.

Earlier Monday, mortar rounds fell on an elementary school in southern Baghdad's Abu Dhseir section, killing one woman and wounding eight children.

Gunmen assassinated a police officer, also a lecturer at the police academy, as he headed home in eastern Baghdad, an official said.

Insurgents demolished part of a Sunni mosque in southern Baghdad's Dora neighborhood with explosives. No one was killed or wounded in that attack.

Also, police found 29 unidentified bodies Monday scattered across the Iraqi capital, with many showing signs of torture, the official said.


                                                                             [refer to the CNN News]