(VOVworld) – Up to 24 people were killed and 61 others wounded on Saturday in two suicide car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Civilians gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Jameela market in the crowded Sadr City neighbourhood in Baghdad in August 2015. (Photo: AP)

The attacks occurred at the crowded Adan Square near the entrance of the holy Shiite district of Kadhmiyah in northern Baghdad when one suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden car. Shortly after, another suicide bomber blew up his car bomb some 50 meters away from the site of the first blast. Iraq has been witnessing some of the worst violence in years. According to a recent United Nations report, terrorism and violence has left at least 12,282 civilians dead and 23,126 others injured in 2014, making it the deadliest year since the flare-up of sectarian violence in 2006-2007.