Late on Tuesday evening, two auto bombs were set off in separate areas of Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 19 people and wounding scores more, according to local police spokesman.

Separately, seven troops and allied militiamen were killed and four others wounded in a clash with the IS militants in Albu Haiyat area, just east of the town of Haditah, which itself located some 200 km northwest of Baghdad, the source said.

ISIS claimed not only higher death tolls – 40 dead in al-Jadida and 25 in al-Zafaraniya – but that both auto bombings targeted members of a Shiite militia known as Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous.

The second attack took place in Zafarania, a district in southern Baghdad where two were killed whereas 9 were wounded, as confirmed by the police. That blast killed 17 people and injured more than 43 people, a lot of them were civilians.

ISIS has been behind much of the violence around Iraq in recent years, taking over vast swaths of the country and neighboring Syria.

On Friday, in another attack which was claimed by Islamic State group in a huge suicide auto bomb attack which killed dozens of people in Khan Bani Saad.