(Xinhua) -- Seven car bombs exploded across Iraq during the past 24 hours, killing 29 and wounding dozens of others, seen as a setback for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's plans to curb sectarian violence in the war-torn country. At least 10 people were killed and 26 others wounded when a car bomb went off near a Shiite mosque in Kamaliyah neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad. Two more car bombs went off in quick succession near the Sunnial-Samarraie mosque in the Baghdad al-Jadida neighborhood, killing five people and wounding 10 others.
In a separate incident, two suicide truck bombs went off at abase housing the Iraqi army's 1st Brigade tasked with protecting oil infrastructure in the Rayadh area, 60 km southwest of Kirkuk, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
Also on Wednesday, a car bomb detonated near a pharmacy close to the al-Yarmouk Hospital in western Baghdad, slightly wounding two.
Late on Tuesday, a suicide car bomber drove his car into an Iraqi army base on the main road between Tikrit and Kirkuk, killing four soldiers and wounding 14 others.