Baghdad, October 23 (RHC)-- At least 37 people have been killed and dozens more injured as two separate car bombs rock Iraq's capital Baghdad. At least 27 people were killed and 37 others injured after a car bomb exploded near a service station in Baghdad's central district of Karrada on Wednesday.

A further 10 people were killed and 29 others wounded after the second car bomb went off across the street from a hospital in the Shia neighborhood of Sadr City. According to local residents, the blast took place when an explosives-laden car which was parked across from the hospital blew up.

Over the last two weeks, Baghdad has seen an increase of bomb attacks, for some of which the ISIL Takfiri group has claimed responsibility. The overall security situation in Iraq has worsened over the past months after the ISIL Takfiri terrorists, of whom many are foreign militants, took control of parts of Iraq's northern and western regions.

According to the United Nations, over 1,110 people were killed in acts of violence across Iraq in September. The ISIL terrorists have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas, including mass executions and beheading of people.

The ISIL militants received training to use light and heavy weapons with the help of the U.S. government at a secret base in Jordan in 2012, according to informed Jordanian officials.