BAGHDAD, June 2: A car blew up in a busy northern Baghdad neighbourhood on Wednesday killing at least five people and wounding more than 35, police and hospital officials said.

A small explosion occurred shortly after a US military convoy passed, wounding a woman passer-by, witnesses said. As a crowd of people rushed to help her, a second, more powerful explosion went off, causing much more casualties.

A doctor at al-Namun hospital in the Aadhimiya district where the blast occurred, said five people were killed and 37 wounded in the attack. Reuters Television pictures showed a burnt-out shell of a car flipped over by the explosion, a large crater and pools of blood on the street in the predominantly Sunni Muslim district.

Police said the road was packed with pedestrians and workers when the explosion went off at mid-morning. In a separate incident in a western district of Baghdad, one Iraqi was killed when a small roadside bomb went off as a US military convoy was passing. The military said it suffered no casualties in the attack. -Reuters