Sadr blast kills 25

At least 25 people have been killed in a slew of bombings targeting Iraqi police in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.Dozens more were wounded in the attacks, which included blasts by two suicide bombers who tried to ram their vehicles through police station gates.  

In the southern Karradah neighborhood, 13 people died and 25 were wounded by a suicide car bomb attack on a police station, said Baghdad police officials.  

Smoke could be seen rising from the blast site as ambulances rushed to the scene, their sirens wailing. Iraqi army helicopters circled overhead.  

In the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, a suicide car bomber targeted a police station and killed nine people, said two Baghdad police officials.   Twenty-seven people were also wounded in that blast.

The attack in Hurriyah was especially remarkable because the neighborhood is a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. It is almost entirely surrounded by blast walls, and access is tightly restricted through just four entrances manned by the Iraqi army.  

Officials said the suicide bombers exploded their vehicles at the outer entrance leading into the police stations.