At least 13 people have been killed and 23 injured in two car bombs that went off in the Sadr district of Iraq's capital Baghdad, police sources have told Al Jazeera.

The blasts happened at around 6:30 pm (15:30 GMT) on Thursday in two different parts of the district.

Police officials said the first attack targeted a line of small restaurants of Sadr. Minutes later, the second blast went off near an outdoor market in the same district.

Later on, a bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad's Shia northern neighbourhood of Shaab, killing three people and wounding 12 others, the AP news agency reported.

Medical officials confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media.

Iraq sees near-daily bombings and other attacks mainly targeting Shia neighbourhoods and security forces. The attacks are often claimed by the Sunni Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group which seized much of northern and western Iraq in a summer offensive.

Al Jazeera And AP