Baghdad, December 23 (RHC)-- At least eight people have lost their lives and 36 others were wounded when a series of bomb explosions ripped through residential neighborhoods in Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

Iraqi security and medical officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two people were killed and nine others injured on Wednesday morning when a roadside bomb went off in an eastern neighborhood of the capital, Baghdad, Arabic-language al-Baghdadia satellite television network reported.

Separately, an improvised explosive device detonated close to a brick making workshop in another neighborhood of southeast Baghdad, leaving two civilians dead and eight others injured. One civilian was also killed and six others sustained injuries on Wednesday when an explosion ripped through a commercial district in the capital's northern neighborhood of al-Hurriya.

Elsewhere, in the town of Khalis, which lies in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala and 80 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, two people were killed and nine others injured when two cars rigged with explosives went off in quick succession. The explosion charred three cars parked nearby and caused substantial damage to a number of buildings in the area.