Police: 6 killed as car bombs go off in 5 Baghdad neighborhoods

From Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN

January 23, 2011 -- Updated 0925 GMT (1725 HKT)

Iraqi workers clean the site of a car bomb attack in the central Karrada district of Baghdad on January 23, 2011.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: Police officials say the attacks appeared to be coordinated
• At least 30 others are wounded in the attacks, police officials say
• Car bombs target a police patrol and a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims

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Baghdad (CNN) -- At least six people were killed when car bombs exploded in five different neighborhoods in Iraq's capital Sunday, police officials said.

At least 30 others were wounded in the attacks. Two police officials in Baghdad said the bombings, which occurred over a three-hour period Sunday morning, appeared to be part of a coordinated attack that showed the hallmarks of al Qaeda in Iraq.

Police said the sites of the bombings, located throughout Baghdad, were an Iraqi police patrol, a busy road, a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims, a street outside a hotel and a commercial area.

One police officer was among the dead and four police officers were among the wounded, police officials said.

From CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq